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...easily explained was a curious collection found in Florrie's trunk and in various places in the house: a package labeled "Arsenic-Poison for cats," three bottles with arsenic in them, a rag and a handkerchief impregnated with arsenic, other lethal odds & ends which doctors said were enough in sum to poison 50 people. Florrie was convicted, sentenced to be hanged...
...From the Graphic, Gauvreau was hired by Hearst's fabulous Albert J. Kobler, publisher of the Mirror then founded to beat Captain Patterson's Daily News. Kob ler was "a well-read, intelligent man" who talked like Sam Goldwyn. ("This tabloid business is not all rag, tag and cocktail.") After making millions for Hearst, he died with less than...
...been my pleasure to listen, and his style is distinctly New Orleans, if we must stylize music. . . . It is probably apocryphal, but I have heard that George can lie flat on his back on the floor, permit a man to stand on his stomach, and then will play Tiger Rag on his trombone with his feet...
...Berlin last week arrived tough-faced young General Agustin Muñoz Grande, a few days ahead of his rag-tag-&-bobtail Spanish volunteers who will help Germany fight Russia. This Spanish response to Adolf Hitler's call for a crusade against Communism was not important as a gift of men (the Germans will have to equip the Spanish volunteers). Far more important was Hitler's success in turning Spain from a sullen suppliant to an open opponent...
...once ranking as the French LIFE with a circulation of 2,500,000, has been taken over by the Germans, published as an "ersatz" called La Semaine. Seized also was his Marie-Claire (French Ladies' Home Journal, with circulation of 1,250,000), and supplanted by a Nazi rag called Pour Elle...