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While there has been steady transplanting of objects during the last month, it has consisted in the moving of cases from the attic and cellar, and of furniture. These were objects not in use or on exhibition, and their removal to the storeroom in the new museum caused no inconvenience to the work of the department...
There was no doubt that the attic room was stuffy. Dice that have felt the sweat of men's hands, cards that are grimy on the edges and sticky on the faces, fiction magazines and cigarets that have been consumed, bedclothes that have been kicked into contortions-do not litter a rose garden. One dozen men were in this attic room; they had lived there for three weeks; they needed haircuts. One night last week, eleven of them were trying to sleep; the other one played a phonograph malignantly, said he would never let them go to sleep unless...
...Government (TIME, Dec. 6). Having heard the summing up of Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, counsel for the Government, of Frank J. Hogan and Wilton J. Lambert, counsel for the defense, and having received final instructions from Judge Adolph A. Hoehling, the jurors returned to their attic room to balance the scales of justice. Various tales- have leaked out of what happened there. One thing is certain; ten of the jurors accepted the major arguments of the defense without coercion, while two of them, an educated man and a bank clerk who is studying law, doggedly dissented. For most...
...tumultuous plays that searched deep into the spirit of man, they provided this. A great moral lesson might be taught in a Greek play, but it was purely secondary, and was borne home to the mind only after long and careful consideration of the action. The feature of the Attic drama was its power of lifting the human soul out of itself, and causing the mind in a contemplation of spiritualities mightier than itself, to lose sight of petty earthly troubles...
...stamps (printed upside down); the freak inverted 24-cent U. S. airplane stamps (only one sheet of them got into circulation) and many another scrap of paper that it would be bad luck to throw away if found on some old letters in the attic...