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...House grounds merely because he had given them authority to make modest alterations in the White House offices during his absence. When he returned there was nothing left standing save three of those offices' outer walls, and during his first night in the White House he slept to the tattoo of pneumatic drills demolishing one of the remaining walls. His desk was set in the Oval Room, where Abraham Lincoln's once stood. There he settled down to attack the great problem he had seen with his own eyes, the grim reality of Drought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: After Roosevelt, the Rain | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...nation espousing a belief in freedom of speech will not submit to a subjugation of it under the tattoo of horses' hoofs. The brutality and officiousness demonstrated yesterday are to be deplored. Courtesy must be extended to the visiting ship, and the activities of shouting "Red" or other agitators who insist on making themselves obnoxious must be curtailed in the interest of good sense, but the tactics pursued must be different than those used yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON'S FINEST | 5/18/1934 | See Source »

...madness had beaten out the brains of a helpless dwarf. That the negro nurse of the child, Choster Hurry, is the mistress of his father and mother of his six dusky half-brothers and half-sisters, that the uncle with whom Chostor goes to live is tattooed all over his body and married to a syphilitic harlot who haggles with her husband nightly over the price he must pay to sleep with her, that the youth marries the illegitimate daughter of a tattoo artist who destroys their connubial bliss by insisting her portrait be pricekd indelibly on her husband...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 3/20/1934 | See Source »

Asked his opinion on the Roosevelt administration, Pete issued the following statement: "Roosevelt, he good man. N. R. A. is good thing. But it hurt my woik. Last Saturday I tattoo elephant on man from Brockton. I am all finish except elephant's trunk. It is midnight. I have to quit, 'cause N. R. A. say I no can woik except 48 hours one week. I have leave elephant without no trunk. Man from Brockton, he won't pay me. He say elephant is walrus, not elephant. He get mad, I have throw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pete the Tattoo Expert on Scollay Square Does Mona Lisa--- Will Prick 'Veritas' For Six Bits | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...this grand master?" asked the reporter. "He live on Coney Island. He do hundred tattoos every day. He can woik without use only one hand. He woik for big bankers. One time he tattoo senator from Washington. He very famous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pete the Tattoo Expert on Scollay Square Does Mona Lisa--- Will Prick 'Veritas' For Six Bits | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

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