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Houston Richards is east as Gina's younger brother but just what his status is it is hard to determine. Dressed in tuxedo and looking fully as old as Gina, he leaves the room with a strap-load of books. Towards the end of the evening, he returns still in the tuxedo--throws the books down and remarks that he's darned glad that's over. We should think he would be, but was it a masquerade bail or a night class...
...Richards is having a special brace made for me", he continued, "which will strap above and below the knee, and give it adequate support. I fully expect to play baseball before the season is over...
...sparks of a glowing humanity filtered through. The hero is a mute inglorious Milton?except when selling Gold Strap Food Products. He wins a village girl, a trifle shrilly pitched but cleverer than himself. Unable to fuse his mental ivory and cardiac gold, she elopes with a traveling trombonist. Twenty years' leave of absence from humanity in Alaska bring husband back to the scene still a financial and cerebral failure. Wrenching the play quite out of shape, Miss Gale screws on a happy ending...
...laborers have been whipped to death, is now examining Paul Revere White, a convict who worked in a turpentine camp in Bradford County, Florida. White testified that because he was unable to do as much work as the Negro convicts he was given five lashes with an eight pound strap, each lash knocking him on the ground and cutting deep gashes in his flesh. Hearings will be continued until the jury has amassed sufficient evidence upon which to base indictments...
...youth manfully turning a large spoked wheel by jerks and tugs. You say he is preparing for a sailor's career at the helm of a bounding bark. It may be that he is only the prospective owner of a small car. Over there, a future commuter is practicing strap hanging by chinning himself with one hand slowly but firmly over a horizontal bar. Later on he will turn a few handsprings on the mats. (The children in the party will enjoy this...