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...Court's new home should look like: a classic temple of white stone 385 ft. deep, on each side of which abut lower rectangular wings. The temple-front is roofed to a slight peak above massive Corinthian columns, this portal and the wings to present a façade 304 ft. wide...
...Hurst Recalls:", "Irvin S. Cobb Recalls:", "Mary Roberts Rinehart Recalls:"- friends of Bob Davis pinch-hitting in his column. The list grew so long-Ben Ames Williams, Rex Ellingwood Beach, Newton Booth Tarkington, Ring W. Lardner, Sam Heilman, Sophie Kerr, Dorothy Canfield, Henry Louis Mencken, Montague Marsden Glass, George Ade, etc. etc.-that the Sun's Bob Davis column promised to become a complete parade of U. S. literati...
...Circumferences." When Iowa's Ernest Horn became wrought up over the inadequacy of the English alphabet to represent sounds accurately, he started calculating-14 sounds for "s," 22 for "long e," 21 for "ir," etc. Variant spellings for "ir" intrigued him: (h) er, (s) ir, (ch) or (ade), (c) er (tain), err, (theat)re (m)yrrh. For lowan reasons were included (n)ear, (hon)or. When he finished with "circumference," he figured 396,000,000 phonetic spellings...
...George Ade, humorist (Fables in Slang), rose dripping from his bath tub to answer his telephone at his summer home near Brook, Ind. He skidded, crashed, skittered down the stairs, broke his left...
...coffin cramping and monotonous, gave up his original act, purchased a hussar jacket and a whip and toured South America, sticking his head into lions' mouths twice daily. But Argentine circusgoers missed their Living Corpse, managers searched for a successor. Last week the rococo façade of Buenos Aires' Cirque Cordoba billed another "Blackamon, the Living Corpse." The new Blackamon, who had been one of the original Living Corpse's assistants, omitted his former master's self perforations last week, but successfully went into his trance, was buried in his glass-fronted coffin. Three hours...