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...Cambridge going into Boston and getting drunk, thus causing all sorts of problems for himself. There's a moral here somewhere, but it's probably gotten lost over the past 131 years. P.T. Barnum used to lead temperance parades to performances of this, and you know what Barnum said, sucker. People put shows like this on because they are great...
...Cambridge going into Boston and getting drunk, thus causing all sorts of problems for himself. There's a moral here somewhere, but it's probably gotten lost over the past 131 years. P.T. Barnum used to lead temperance parades to performances of this, and you know what Barnum said, sucker. People put shows like this on because they are great...
...morning in 1928 to his fleabag hotel, after a five-day binge. With a snappy-brim hat, stubble on his chin, a nearly empty pint in his pocket and a cigarette wheeze that makes his fits of laughter sound like emphysema, Erie has the jauntiness of a doomed sucker...
...train to New York. A middle-aged man dressed in a spotless grey-flannel suit waits nervously with his wife. Her face is heavily powdered and her hair is piled high on her head. Close to the track a wrinkled-looking man in a creased sear-sucker sports coat checks his watch and begins to pace in a narrow circle. His sparse white mustache stands out on his lined black face, and every few seconds his jaundiced eyes dart to his tattered straw-colored suitcase, checking to see that it is still there...
...need to believe is as dominant a factor in this so-called enlightened age of ours as it has ever been. To quote Anton La Vey, who spearheaded the contemporary Satan boom, "Barnum said that a sucker is born every minute; with today's population explosion, there are two born every minute." Your article on the psychics would indicate that indeed a third is born every minute: a parapsychologist...