The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-27

and then toyed with It for several
moments Then when he saw
words come out Of Il. he begged 70
play with II he did 30 fr
hours, said ounther ~He had
never seen Q fountain pen leforeI"
IL comes cut now that Al Smith
almost lost the Empire state Bldg.
1887.
It would have been ironical for
al, Of all people, to be evicted to-
"1he Sidewalks Of New York"
Paul v. McNutt styles himself au
IF" candidate for the White House,
the IF" being whether Mr.. Roose-
welt still wants to live there.
We can't resist the pm. His initials
are now If D. r.
One Of the booksy columnists
quotes Ford MADDOX Ford on the
dizziness Of the Midle Ages ;.
Knights, when they got bored with
hanging around the castle, would
buckle o ntheir armor and ride off
looking for trouble Their de-
serted ladies would also get tard
Of gnawing their nails, and they
would yoo-hoo at passing trouba-
dours and pretty fellers.
Well, the Something goes on to-
ay-only it is not the period which
Ia the Middle AQeS-it,S the Deos
pie!
Sam Jones smashed the Long
machine in Louisiana last week.
and now Huey's former henchmen
will have to forget that slogan about
Every man king" and go back
to the old grind Of every man for
himself"
tn Chicago Crime Commission
charges that politicians of that city
are partners" of the racketeers
They must have been pro-
NOTED, for politicians have always
been willing to be just the hired
help Epstein's 3-ton statue Of
Adam, soon to be sent on a tour
Of America, Mortified the British be-
cause, they said, it was so "anatomi-
cally realistic" The darn
thing, ita ppears, wasn't any i'm
provement on Man :. Rome's
newspaper, Popolo dTtalia, an
nounces editorially that Italy trusts
no nation excepting herself, and
the Fascist peoples will go into ac-
ton excepting herself, and the Fas-
cist peoples will go into action
when II Duce wills 1t, and how and
where" Especially-and how!
The colyum recently hoped the
radio announcers would discover the
correct pronunciation Of Belgrade"
Some called it BELL Grand"
:. M. p. Hitch, formerly act
ing consul Of JugoSlavia writes:
'You are right, both are wrong.
The correct is .Beo-grad,' meaning
white Citadel. Beo is white, grad
Is citadel. You pronounced it
'Bay-o-grad."
The Port Huron (Mich.) Times
Herald reports: among the many
inventions Of Edison, the modern
gossip column has never been con-
sidered. But many decades before
today's Nourishing dispensers OF
personal secretsfound an eager fol-
lowing, young Tom Edison under
took q brief venture in publishing
items about Port Huron people
He discontinued his Weekly Her
add in favor Of a sheet specialize
ing in gossip. He called it Paul
Pry'.
II one man sold another a balky.
horse, If love.sick swain called
too often on his sweetheart or II
wife spent too much on clothes,
the young rascal printed the IN
formation. People bought the pa
per to see what it said about their
neighbors and found something III
in abotu themselves! Edison duched
behind wagons when he saw them
coming One man, angry az
ter reading a bit about himself, was
too quick wor young Edison, and
catching him by the coat tail threw
him intot he st. Clair river
Soon after, Edison gave up being
a Walter Winchell."
And don't forget thath other in1-
tator, Benjamin Franklin.