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...Michigan City, Strangler Lewis sprang upon Wayne ("Big") Munn (TIME, Jan. 19), called the "Collegian" because he refutes every sneer at his excessive stupidity with the retort that he is a college graduate Neither could see very well. The Strangler's little red eyes had been inflamed by getting resin in them. Munn had a patch over his left eye which had been butted. After losing the first fall, Lewis applied 20 headlocks, hoisted the collegian over his shoulder, threw him over the canvas as a chambermaid throws a sheet over a bed. He took the third fall after...
Does your correspondent, Oliver Kecthtson, know anything about Fatty Arbuckle that causes him, in your issue of Mar. 9, P. 27, to sneer at the mention of his marriage as a news item? If he feels that all mention of that unfortunate victim of a series of circumstances over which he had absolutely no control, should damn a man who, previously to his persecution in San Francisco, made the cleanest pictures the screen ever displayed, he should have had my privilege, that of having him, as I did, as a guest of the hotel (The Plaza in San Francisco...
...defense is silent as the tomb," said Prosecuting Attorney Pomerene. To which, venerable Defending Attorney Lacey replied by demanding that all evidence concerning the monster deal be stricken from the records because there was nothing to implicate Sinclair with the bond transfer. And Defending Attorney Littleton added later the sneer that, some months ago, the Government "got bond hungry and went bond hunting all over...
...name of the town of Oshkosh, Wis., is admittedly funny. Indeed, to the citizens of the Eastern U. S., any town west of the Alleghanies with an Indian name seems good for a laugh. The mere allusion to one of these settlements, thrown out with a befitting sneer, rouses roars of mirth in any company and knights the dullest jackass as a wit. About the bulletin board of a golf club in Florida, stood a group of Eastern citizens, sunburnt, risible, reading the list of entries for the annual women's golf championship of Belleair Heights. They read with...
Thomas Hardy, Sinclair Lewis, the late Anatole France have variously been talked of as the best known of contemporary writers. But the dwelling-place of renown is not always in the high places. The Sophisticati may sneer; but the reading public extends even to the scullery and the attic. A census of that mysterious body would not impossibly reveal an equal extent of the fame of humbler wielders of the pen. The laughter of Olympus is no barrier to the literary delectation of the barely literate...