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...half-hour later the team was turning somersaults and tipping over taxicabs out in front of the Tremens Theatre. Having ripped up half the pavement and broken all the glass in the lobby they were filling quietly in when the doorman (Yale '99) and the box-office individual (Princeton 01) and the manager (wherever he went) conspired to stop their progress. The charge of intoxication was, of course, ridiculous...
...evening a reporter had been following Thaw and the members of his seraglio. At length the pursued taxi, careering down a dark side street, drew up in front of the Del Fey Club; Thaw followed a drugget of light on the pavement; a door closed behind him. When the reporter's knuckles a moment later belabored that door, a panel in its upper section slid back and in the slit appeared the bulldog brow of a surly doorkeeper. The reporter was a man typical of his kind, a seedy fellow, drearily accoutred. No evening shirt fluted his meagre bosom...
...turned up at the Capitol, silk hatted, with varicolored spats, and walked all over the bright white lines in sym-were tacked up in the great semicircles of seats, making it look metrical designs, and the diligently pointing arrows which the local Traffic Director had just painted on the pavement...
Police confiscated the entire issue of the Havana newspaper El Heraldo which had been attacking the Machado government. The Government had refused to honor a bill for $1,107,966.22 presented by a certain company for installing pavement and a sewage system in the city of Matanzas. Carlos Govea, a member of the contracting firm, is editor of El Heraldo and had been saying what he thought of the government until the Interior department ordered his paper suppressed...
...bars, I told him, had been across those windows since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. They were placed there when the Roosevelts made a nursery of the room and for the sole purpose of keeping the energetic young Roosevelt boys from precipitating themselves to their death on the concrete pavement below. I hated to spoil a good story, but what else...