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...gaudy and bullish. Promptly things began to happen: 1) William Schultz, partner, found one of his valuable horses had been stolen, sold to a Negro for $20; 2) The local light company refused to furnish illumination on credit, the fodder merchants to furnish fodder; 3) After putting up the tent, the roustabouts struck, left; 4) The band followed the roustabouts; 5) A rainstorm came, razed the tent; 6) The tent manufacturer and the sheriff came and took the tent away; 7) The lions, hungry, broke out of their cage, went to the ball park, slumbered in left field...
...worst journey" Author Cherry-Garrard tells about was not Scott's fatal march, but a trip taken by himself and two others in search of eggs of the Emperor Penguin. It required five weeks of fearful hardship; when their tent blew away in a gale they thought they would die, almost gave up hope. But they got three eggs, brought them back safe and sound. Blurbs Playwright George Bernard Shaw: ". . . a very horrible experience. Compared with it Amundsen's victorious rush to the South Pole seems as cheerful as a trip to Margate...
History. Photography 50 years ago, when George Eastman entered the business, was a cumbersome and tedious pastime. One wishing to go into the country for a few snapshots had first to procure the services of a mule. On the mule would be loaded: a tent for the preparation of the "wet plates" (which were sensitized in the tent and put, dripping, into the camera); vats for the chemical solutions; a tripod which would support a piano box: a camera nearly as large as a piano box: a helper...
...Literary Digest's national poll now in full swing, and the recent 82-61 vote of the New York Assembly supporting the Cuvillier bill petitioning Congress to call a Constitutional convention to repeal the unlovely Amendment have served, for the first time, to bring together under the same tent definite and compact opinion on the liquor question from three distinct elements in the Republic...
Largely responsible for Circus ballyhoo is grizzled, bushy-browed Dexter Fellowes, Ringling pressagent. For 37 years Dexter Fellowes has been getting publicity for tent shows-a U. S. pressagent record. Business associates claim that he has the widest U. S. acquaintance. Even before the Circus got to town, his arrival was the signal for his friends of the press to wax waggish. He did not mind, for his policy is: let the newsmen write anything they like about...