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What Picassos, Rousseaus, Matisses will crown the next decade? None of the critics who choked down their giggles as they studied the pictures of potentially immortal Independents could very well say. There were too many queer ones, new ones, sad ones, naughty ones, for a measured judgment. There was, for instance, a picture by a Russian, one David Burliul, in which he visualized the vibrations of modern city life in what he defined as "radio style." Eitaro Ishigaki, a Japanese, drew a picture of a phantom on the point of being crushed by a thousand falling elevated trains...
Back at Ann Arbor many continued to feel queer. They became nauseated. Maybe nervous indigestion. They began to lose their appetites. Boardinghouse "grub." And when diarrhea and fever came on they grew worried. However, in all but four men these symptoms passed quickly. In two, three weeks the eyelids of these four became swollen. Every time they moved their eyes their eyeballs ached. Their muscles ached all over. High time to consult a doctor...
...Samuel S. Drury is rector of the largest U. S. church school, St. Paul's (Episcopal), at Concord, N. H. His subject is "Religious Influence." He frankly "talks religion," insisting that religion is not "queer" or "forced" as a part of a boy's education. He believes that schools have made a god of morality and been afraid of theology. He believes that boys are natural mystics, that the second decade is in all directions a romance. "Some colleges," he says, "will not grant a degree unless the senior can swim 100 yards; the school might make one condition...
...that I attempted to bribe the police officer who unwarrantably arrested me . . . I am writing a book dealing with vice conditions in the West End, and had gone to Hyde Park to gather data at first hand. I call the Court's attention to the fact that my works, Queer People and Diversions of a Prime Minister, are well known. . . As I entered the park I was accosted by a young woman, and we sat down upon two chairs placed under a tree at some distance from the public walk. . . I engaged her in conversation, and later, when she said...
...heart worried lest they drown. Heavily be pondered and then, with sudden decision, uttered an official "Ja". It may be that no skater ventured until the next day. At any rate, not until that time were the Mayor's fears substantiated. While then, instead of a splash, came a queer thud for the Mayor had drained the pond...