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...shoulders. . . . He knew the chains of them well; the Ortler group with the tall lovely leaning body of the Ortler casting her shadow from exile on them, and the Venediger looking towards the lagoons of the Italian sea, and the two Glockners rising from their glaciers, upright from the brink of death." Pendennis Jones is a midwestern girl, married to an Englishman, who expresses herself in slightly dated wisecracks, bears a considerable family resemblance to the character of Brett in The Sun Also Rises. Sending her husband packing, by some measures not disclosed, Pendennis visits the doctor, talks politics with...
...down the dark hill they ran beside the rolling caravan. Then the woman jumped for the running board of the car to pull its brakes. She slipped, fell, lay groaning, while her distracted companion rushed to her side. The car rolled on, crunched solidly into a tree on the brink of the lake...
...gasoline gives an infernal aspect to this operation of war. An armistice of 24 hours may mean the lives of the women and children. I beg His Excellency the Spanish Foreign Minister to have these women and children who in the Alcázar are locked on the brink of Death placed in the care of the Diplomatic Corps...
Meantime Promoter Clarke was trying desperately to keep Utilities Power & Light from teetering over the brink of disaster. At one time its debentures sold as low as 22? on the dollar. Nevertheless, Promoter Clarke, who is still Utilities Power & Light's president, managed to scrape together enough cash on every interest date, thus avoid receivership or reorganization...
...issue was industrial v. craft unionism-clashing philosophies whose champions had at last come to the brink of open war. Though the fateful declaration was postponed by the American Federation of Labor's Executive Council, meeting in Washington last week, and though the contending forces were still formally united in the Federation, the battle lines were already clearly drawn. On one side were ranged William Green and his fellow craft unionists, representing nearly two-thirds of A. F. of L.'s membership. Beneficiaries of an entrenched order, they would fight to preserve it. Against them stood John Llewellyn...