Word: tatter
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Like its rival, Sketch, the Toiler combined fiction and fun in its Christmas annual. Both magazines had colored centre spreads, Tatter's by Comic Artist Henry Mayo Bateman, who contributed "The Gigolo Who Refused to Dance"; Sketch's by the late Sporting Artist Cecil Aldin who drew a Dickensian "Christmas Coach Crossing Marlborough Downs." With art lovers, Sketch went one up by giving away a colored insert of "Ballet" by Dame Laura Knight, A. R. A. The London Sphere's Christmas annual featured the Victoria & Albert Museum's wax "Nativity," while the Illustrated London News...
...take one or two hurried Sunday excursions to the camp in the next month or two, but it is his intention to join Congress in sitting on the Tariff. Last act of Mr. Hoover before leaving his camp was to invite Mr. Burraker to visit him. Last month freckled, tatter- demalion, 14-year-old Ray (William McKinley) Burraker tiptoed into the camp carrying a pet opossum to his President. As a special treat, the President introduced his benefactor to a tall curly-haired man. Ray was not impressed?he had never heard of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Last week...
...That four members of the American team should conspire to a trick quite as dishonorable as tripping or knocking down a superior opponent, that they should go to the mark prepared to carry out their miserable plot, that, when at the last moment some shred and tatter of decency stopped them, they should glory in their sportsmanship-all this reads like a bad dream, like something impossible and unreal. It is as if they said, 'We planned to win by sticking a rake handle between Abraham's legs at the fifty-yard mark. It was a good scheme...
...form of a grass rope. If an American soldier in charge of the oil reserves of the nation had done what he has done he would have been court-martialed and shot. "... I am going to close now with this appropriate quotation from Shakespeare's King Lear: Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm, it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it. "Shame on those who brought this Fall and Doheny case...
...Illustrated London News, Sketch, Sphere, Tatter, Men's Wear, Eve, Draper's Record, Graphic...