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...eggs from Murphy's family of five Japanese hens brought Warden Hill $5 apiece from poultry fanciers. But there were other buyers of those eggs, at whose stealthy purpose the White Plains prison keeper occasionally hinted, as though he were the purveyor of a witch's stew. With Murphy dead, the master revealed his secret commerce. The revelation raised a great guffaw among those who had any sound knowledge of medicine. For, according to Warden Hill, those sly buyers broke up the eggs, put the yolk & whites in small capsules, and prescribed the encapsulated eggs...
...chimney. Friends attempted to hoist food to him by kites and the police cut the string. Kiyoshi sat on his chimney. Police threatened to light a fire under the chimney. Kiyoshi gritted his teeth and continued to sit on his chimney. Police sent up a tasty fish stew, flavored with sleep-inducing drugs in the hope that the famished Kiyoshi would partake of it, fall off. Finally the owners of the factory, realizing that for the honor of Tokyo Kiyoshi must come down, agreed to reinstate the discharged workmen. Police screamed the news through megaphones. Stiffly victorious Kiyoshi Tanabe climbed...
...worst expletive newshawks have felt free to print to date has been the famed "The Sejm is a prostitute!" (TIME, July 9, 1928 et seq.). Last week the Dictator enlarged a little on his usual theme of excoriation. Said he of the constitution: "It is like a bad stew; no stomach is able to digest it." And then: "It exudes such an odor that the street in which Parliament is located smells unpleasantly!" And finally: "A pigsty for the Sejm...
...foreigners the graceful Spanish mantilla, a veil of cobwebby black or white lace worn on the heads of Spanish ladies,-is as typical of the country as bull fighting or olla podrida (meat and vegetable stew). In modern Spain the only times that mantillas are actually worn are at gala occasions, such as bull fights and during Holy Week. Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie and the Infantas Beatriz and Maria Christina officially inaugurated Mantilla Week by marching into Madrid's cathedral last week, their heads shrouded in the most cobwebby of cream lace mantillas...
Resigned, cheerful in prison, she made friends with attendants, embroidered herself a silk shroud. All night before her execution she played whist with friends, stopped at midnight to make them some oyster stew. At dawn she marched off, unsupported, between two guards. She bantered with newsmen, posed for photographers, shook hands with the warden, kissed the guards, walked firmly up the steps to the gallows. Death was instantaneous, for the jerk of the noose cut off her head...