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...This is a swell jail!" remarked Seaman Jones. "A lot better than Al Capone...
...longer considered disgraceful for famed "singers to swell their incomes by singing in cinemansions. Contralto Margaret Matzenauer sang last week at Roxy's where Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, another Metropolitan Opera alumna, has sung several times. Soprano Frances Alda, a mound of red velvet and jewels, last week did a turn at the Palace, Manhattan vaudeville house...
These six cases within the past fortnight provided Oklahoma with a full-size medical scandal last week. Subsequent developments caused the scandal to swell horridly...
Burlesque paintings are usually popular with the public. Commercial artists joined the Fakirs to try their hand at burlesque and swell the scholarship fund. Since the National Academy makes a great to-do over donating its prizes, Patron Sam Shaw used to give a ist Prize of $25 in pennies and a hot mince pie to the best Fake of the year. The Fakirs Ball was even more appreciated by the public which quickly discovered that the Fakirs, in their anxiety for scholarships, had much more liberal ideas than the Beaux Arts Architects about the proper...
...succeeding councils are to be equally ineffective, it is a matter of small concern in what way they are elected. The recent decision to swell council membership by admitting two students not House residents is a wise one, as is the provision assuring each House a representative. The simplest methods of election in this event would be to have each House ballot for its won representative...