Miscellany, Nov. 11, 1935

Lout

In Madison, Wis., after his eleventh dancing lesson, Farmer Seymour Moe, 41, stood in a corner of the dancing school and wept because he could not dance. For the seventh time, police came, arrested Moe for creating a disturbance, released him for the twelfth and last lesson.

Hurler

In a mountain cabin outside Los Angeles, while his hale wife writhed and screamed in a blazing dress ignited by a gasoline stove, legless, armless Frank Seymour, watching, writhed in his chair, hurled himself bodily across the room to his wife, smothered the flames...

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