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...weeks about the streets of Massillon, Ohio (pop: 26,475) clattered a two-horse buggy in which sat a pucker-faced little old man with wiry grey hair. Whenever his vehicle was stopped by red traffic lights or his horses veered off to graze at curb grass, the old man would stand up on the buggy seat and exhort passing citizens-workers from the foundries, the machine shops, the glass factories, attendants at the State Insane Asylum, farmers from Stark County-to vote for him as Republican nominee for Mayor. With the fervor of an evangelist promising heaven...
...church was celebrating its 80th anniversary. Through the congregation circulated the same respectable, soberly-clad gentlemen who take up the Maplewood collection every Sunday. But today, every now and then one of these gentlemen would pucker his lips and, discreetly yet unmistakably, whistle...
Parliament met to elect the new Regent amid tensest excitement, for representatives of the majority Peasant Party had not yet been instructed for whom they were to vote. With a worried pucker in his brow Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu convoked his Cabinet for a last minute huddle behind locked doors. Several U. S. correspondents present bulletined to their editors: The likeliest candidate for the Regency is Queen Marie...
Prizes, however, were awarded to work in fresh, distinctive modes. Robert Henri, bright, sketchy painter of children whose eyes would pop at dolls and toy engines, whose lips would pucker wetly at lollypops, won the Temple Gold Medal for painting with his fluffy, serious Wee Woman. A lean, angular and sour ancient in a dark figured dress, called Madame du Tarte, won for Richard Lahey the Carol Beck Medal for portraiture. Bruce Moore's Black Panther, in savage, undulating stride, won the George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal for sculpture...
Born. To Mrs. Burton S. Tucker, 53, and Tucker, 20, their second child, a son; at Los Angeles. Their marriage, three years ago, gained them national fame and resulted in their indictment on charges of conspiracy and perjury to conceal Mr. Pucker's age (17). Last week their ages were entered on the birth certificate...