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...urbane Warriners are on the verge of divorce because Jerry (Gary Grant) suspects that Lucy (Irene Dunne) has been carrying on with her music teacher and because Jerry came back from an alleged trip to Florida with a basket of California oranges. The decree, to become final in 90 days, grants Lucy custody of shaggy Mr. Smith (Asta of The Thin Man), allows Jerry occasional visits with...
...which would have exactly the same form. In a dining room such a table would not be useful; in a decorative painting its form may be. For the same reason Braque's colors, from the vivid yellow triangle of the tablecloth through the reddish brown of the wickerwork basket, the darker red of the shadow form at the right of the table, the grey-blues and green-blues of the structural background, are an improvement on the colors light would make in an ordinary room. To painters, Braque's stucco-textured colors themselves seemed brilliant inventions...
...bones were very immature. Beside the skeleton lay a sharp bone 'dagger.' At this level also were found some very small projectile points, possibly dart heads and knives, scrapers and bone awls. . . . There can be no question that these people preceded by several thousand years the earliest Basket Makers...
...that the skeleton was imbedded in lake gravel on the cave floor indicated that the cave was inhabited soon after the water retreated from its mouth. Bits of charcoal showed the inhabitants to be fire makers. Dr. Steward viewed the skeleton as an important link between the well-known Basket Makers and the mysterious, much earlier "Folsom Men" whose bodily remains have not been found although they left an abundance of their characteristic "Folsom points"-stone weapons with a shallow groove chipped out on each side of the blade. Dr. Steward estimated the age of the Salt Lake child...
...Wright Brothers' first airplane moves smoothly along over the elm covered lawn of the Yard scooping leaves as it goes. Creation of a vacuum is the principle by which the machine operates. A large roller is turned, creating a fine vacuum and whoosh!--all the leaves are in the basket...