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...Philip Gibbs of the London Daily Chronicle, was late in covering his assignment. Finally he reached the good ship Hans Egede, scrambled up a rope ladder. On deck, newspapermen talked about the North Pole in polyglot tongues. Mr. Gibbs introduced himself to a man with a heavy nose and queer eyes, who said: "Come and have some breakfast...
...queer eyes belonged to Dr. Frederick A. Cook and over the coffee cups, on that morning in 1909, they began his undoing. Mr. Gibbs, convinced that Dr. Cook was a liar and that he had never reached the North Pole, wired the Daily Chronicle seven columns to that ef fect. Meanwhile, Copenhagen received Dr. Cook with cheers and medals, wined and dined him. All the world applauded. But later evidence, including Robert E. Peary's return from the North Pole with news that he had found nothing to show that Dr. Cook had been there, proved that wary Reporter...
Peddlers used to be called "Bible Leaf Joe," "Dew Drop," "Johnny Cup o' Tea," "Leather Breeches," "Dutch Molly," "Shoestring Pratt." Now they are plain "our-Mr.-Zerkle," "our-Mr.-Bragg." Along the road they used to meet, instead of small-time vaudeville folk, really queer dicks like David Wilbur, Rhode Island's gentle, weatherwise, forest wildman, whose passion was scratching signs on pumpkins; Dan Pratt, the sawbuck philosopher, whiskered butt of a score of colleges; Ann Lee and her twelve disciples who rumor said were self-made eunuchs; and Johnny Appleseed, wilderness pilgrim, with his body...
...queer thing, the friends a blind man makes," asserted Dan. "A man who buys a paper from me every day is Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, and he's always ready with a bit of cheerful conversation. He's taken me to dinner at the Colonial Club too, and he says that when things seem to be a bit black he thinks of the tough time I've had and realizes that it's not as bad as it might...
...will be a queer trial. Judge Fred Raymond is a Protestant. Mr. Reed was born a Presbyterian and is a candidate for President. Mr. Ford, idealist, pacifist and manufacturing moralist, keeps his religion an enigma. William H. Gallagher, attorney for Attorney Sapiro, is a Roman Catholic. Mr. Sapiro, onetime orphanage waif and newsboy, once studied to be a rabbi...