U.S.A_ - John Dos Passos [470]
"Me married? Never again. . . . Good old Jim, always wantin' people to sign things. Too bad I didn't break my arm. Wel , what do you think about planes now, Jim? Not practical yet . . . eh? But practical enough to make more money than you ever made sel in' tin lizzies. . . . Don't get sore, Jim. . . . Say, Jim, be sure to get plenty of good doctors . . . I'm pretty sick, do you know it? . . . It makes you so hoarse . . . make 'em let me have some water to drink, Jim. Don't do to save on the doctors. . . . I want to talk like we used to when, you know, up the Red River fishin' when there wasn't any. We'l try the fishin'
out here. . . . swel fishin' right outside of Miami here. . . . I. feel like I was passin' out again. Make that doctor give me somethin'. That was a shot. Thank you, nurse, made me feel fine, clears everythin' up. I tel you, Jim, things are hummin' in the air . . . mail subsidies . . . airports
. . . al these new airlines. . . . we'l be the foundin'
fathers on al that. . . . They thought they had me out on my ass but I fooled 'em. . . . Jesus, Jim, I wish I could stop talkin' and go to sleep. But this passin' out's not like sleep, it's like a . . . somethin' phony." He had to keep on talking but it wasn't any use. He was too hoarse. His voice was a faint croak, he was so thirsty. They couldn't hear him. He had to make them hear him. He was too weak. He was dropping spinning being sucked down into
-377-NEWSREEL LXII
STARS PORTEND EVIL FOR COOLIDGE
If you can't tell the world
She's a good little girl
Then just say nothing at all
the elder Way had been attempting for several years to get a certain kind of celery spray on the market. The investi-gation of the charges that he had been beaten revealed that Way had been warned to cease writing letters, but it also brought to light the statement that the leading celery growers were using a spray containing deadly poison As long as she's sorree
She needs sympathee
MINERS RETAIL HORRORS OF DEATH
PIT
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Just like a butterfly that's caught in the rain Longing for flowers Dreaming of hours
Back in that sun-kissed lane
TOURISTS ROB GAS STATION
PROFIT TAKING FAILS TO CHECK STOCK RISE
the climate breeds optimism and it is hard for pessimism to survive the bright sunshine and balmy breezes that blow from the Gulf and the Atlantic
Oh it ain't gonna rain no more
HURRICANE SWEEPS SOUTH FLORIDA.
-378-SOUTH FLORIDA DEVASTATED
1000 DEAD, 38,000 DESTITUTE
BROADWAY BEAUTY BEATEN
Fox he got a bushy tail
Possum's tail is bare
Rabbit got no tail at all
But only a tuft o' hair
FLORIDA RELIEF FUND FAR SHORT
MARTIAL LAW LOOMS
It ain't gonna rain no more
according to the police the group spent Saturday evening at Hil side Park, a Bel evil e amusement resort and about mid-night went to the bungalow. The Bagley girls retired, they told the police, and when the men entered their room one of the girls jumped from a window
But how in hell kin the old folks tell
It ain't gonna rain no more?
MARGO DOWLING
Agnes got off the sleeper dressed from head to foot in black crape. She had put on weight and her face had a grey rumpled look Margo hadn't noticed on it before. Margo put her head on Agnes's shoulder and burst out crying right there in the sunny crowded Miami station. They got into the Buick to go out to the beach. Agnes didn't even notice the car or the uniformed chauffeur or anything. She took Margo's hand and they sat looking away from each other out into the sunny streets ful of slowlymoving people in light clothes. Margo was patting her eyes with her lace handkerchief. "Oughtn't you to wear black?"
-379-Agnes said. "Wouldn't you feel better if you were wearing black?" It wasn't until the blue Buick drew up at the door of the bungalow on the beach and Raymond, the thinfaced mulatto chauffeur, hopped out smiling respectful y to take the bags that Agnes began to notice anything. She cried out "Oh, what a lovely car." Margo showed her through the house and out on the