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...Come on down here, Governor, and put your foot on Virginia soil," cried a man. The candidate descended and let a flagman shine a lantern in his face so that the Virginians could see what he looked like. The light gleamed on his gold fillings. The Virginians cheered...
...stuff and nonsense: Funny Face, Good News, Rain or Shine, Manhattan Mary, Keep Shufflin', Rosalie...
...stuff and nonsense: Funny Face, Good News, Rain or Shine, Manhattan Mary, Keep Shufflin', Take...
...followed his big brother at Yale. He followed his big brother at Cincinnati Law School. He followed his big brother in being admitted to the bar. Then he decided that he might not shine with so bright a legal light as big brother, so he became a tutor in Latin, for which he had great love. He had some money and soon founded a school at Pelham Manor, N. Y., to give boys a thorough foundation in the classics. Three years later, in 1893, he moved the school to an old hotel on a hill in Watertown, Conn...
...Rain or Shine. Joe Cook is a comic, worshiped not by his public but by his disciples. He is a comedian funny through the sheer disconnection of his dialogues. He tells unending stories with the eagerest conviction, no two sentences of which have the faintest rational relation. He wears no mad makeups, talks no dialects. He sings well enough, dances deftly, juggles Indian clubs, balances at the top of a 12 foot pole swinging hoops on his heels, walks a huge ball up a perilous incline and down the other side, whirls with his feet a heavy pole weighted with...