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...thousands & thousands of U. S. novel readers Lawrenceville is still the harum-scarum little preparatory school of the 1890's about which Alumnus Owen Johnson wrote in The Varmint and Tin Tennessee Shad. Unforgettable are sue) redoubtable characters as Dink Stover Doc Mcnooder, The Prodigious Hickey Flash Condit, Turkey Reiter, The Triumphant Egghead-a lusty lot, forever up to highjinks, forever bedevilling their masters...
...proud old Theater an der Wien last week a story was enacted which every good Viennese knows: the courtship of young Emperor Franz Josef and Elizabeth, 16-year-old, harum-scarum daughter of Bavaria's Duke Max. Elizabeth, whose nickname was Sissy, was the favorite of her father who roved the forests with woodcutter friends, played the zither, behaved more like a peasant than a duke. Sissy's shrewish mother intended the elder daughter Helene to be Franz Josef's wife. Sissy went along with them when the Bavarian duchess took Helene to Ischl to meet...
Wobbly Wings. Wings are a characteristic of the Democratic party?the urban Irish-Catholic wing of Tammany Hall and New England; the conservative Protestant wing of the South; the rural radical wing of the Northwest; the free, harum-scarum wing of the Southwest. Governor Roosevelt, nominated by a heterogeneous combination of the last three, crushed the first wing, left it bleeding and broken. The Brown Derby is still licking its wounds in sullen silence. John Jacob Raskob, who kept the party alive through four lean years, has been unceremoniously exiled. Regardless of Mayor Walker's fate, Tammany can expect nothing...
Generally, when innocence becomes bliss, farewell innocence. Not so with Authoress Stern's delightful hero and heroine. Both infant prodigies, sophisticated apparently from the cradle up, they blissfully defend their childlike birthrights through 567 pages of close novel-writing, through five or six years of their harum-scarum careers...
Matthew Talbot, born in 1856, was a thin, small man with a high forehead and big eyes. As a youth he was a harum-scarum, liked to drink whiskey and would sell his shoes for a drop of it. Then one day he agreed to take the pledge-for three months. It lasted for the rest of his life. Employed in a lumberyard, he became known as a quiet, pious man. What his fellows did not know was that he slept nights on a plank covered with a single sheet, a block of wood for his pillow...