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...servants to vote Warburton. Anita ("Prefer Blondes") Loos chased her busband (Onetime-Actor John Emerson) to the polls to do likewise. Arthur Hammerstein was fetched from the links by his wife, who used to be Dorothy Dalton. Producer Florenz Ziegfeld glorified the scene at the Town Hall. Many a tradesman advertised his shop by voting as Wealth suggested. Result: Warburton, 482; other candidates...
...sheltered Duke has for the time being escaped such untoward events; but he may yet pass his responsions and live to find out that he is a person of no importance with the university town of Oxford, except, perhaps, to the tradesman and a few fawners, despite his magnificent titles and his 49,900 acres of land...
...Bristol, England, Mrs. Alice Shrive, 55, tradesman's wife, died again last week, thoroughly. Thirty years ago pallbearers carrying her body to a grave, stumbled, caused her to rouse and scold them roundly. Two years later, at her second wake, she sat up on the planks and scolded mourners for wailing. Thereafter she lived to have 31 operations. Neighbors were awed. Last week she died again, of cancer; and relatives, twice duped, cut two of her arteries...
...years ago that a Negro working his way through a western university had a nervous breakdown. So he gave up his education and went to Mays Landing where he opened a barber shop. Business was good. After a time he abandoned the barber shop to continue as a tradesman in tobacco, candy and other small goods. Nobody paid much attention to him. He was practically the only Negro in town. He did not go to Church, in fact he said he was not a Christian. He read a good deal privately, he had no friends, he "tended up to business...
...Troth," replied a tradesman, "I am afraid your Eminence would never make a living selling donkeys...