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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brazen Lady Nicotine has grown bold. She now walks the streets in the better part of town and openly solicits the patronage of the young folks. Be careful Old Girl or you'll find yourself behind a deadline down in the restricted district along with John Barleycorn, where you belong...
...Manhattan, last week, a town jester named Peter Arno held his first art exhibit. Artist Arno is a social satirist. Frothier, less pungent than such satirists as Beerbohm and Bateman, he nevertheless makes sprightly comments on violations of taste and decorum. He lies in wait for those moments when civilized people burst through their shimmering camouflage of gentlity and blatantly expose rage, sex, silliness...
Baseball is the chief interest of Japanese sporting bloods. Eighty thousand Nipponese gather to watch schoolboy baseball games. Each summer day on the Eastern Island crowds stand in the streets of town and city to hear the latest baseball scores. During the late World Series, to which Japanese newspaper correspondents travelled 8,000 miles. Japanese excitement eclipsed that shown in Manhattan or St. Louis. Were the World Series played in Japan, it would be necessary to hollow out the crater of Fujiyama to provide a stadium of suitable dimensions...
...years ago that the idea of Shredded Wheat was first conceived. At that time (1893) one Henry D. Perky, a dyspeptic lawyer, was trying a lawsuit in a small Nebraska town. Breakfasting one morning at the community's only hotel, Lawyer Perky noticed a fellow breakfaster eating what looked like a saucer of whole wheat grain. He would take a large spoon and break up the cooked whole wheat, add milk and cream, and consume. Curious, Lawyer Perky asked questions...
...wrote a letter to his physician, as follows: "I came to China seeking peace and quiet and hoping that here at least people would mind their business and allow me to mind mine. But I have found more snoops and gossips per square inch than in any New England town of 1,000 inhabitants. This does not apply to American newspaper correspondents who have been most decent carrying out their duties in a most gentlemanly manner. . . ." It was the people in hotels who annoyed Playwright O'Neill the most. He also hinted in his letter that his next destination...