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...have counted them many times - and on the way he did tell me many things which I was glad to learn: My Tower be exactly 200 feet high, 35 feet square. On a clear day it is possible to see even unto Wellesley (but this I knew); there bemuch buff sandstone in the Tower which comes from Nova Scotia; there be a reproduction of our John Harvard statue here all made of paper; but most important I did hear much of the men whom this Tower commemorates. This Hall does shine with famous names...
...glad at my heart to open my eyes on such a beautiful blue sky and to hear the happy voices of children already playing in the street below. And as I did turn towards the case ment I saw thereupon, in its winter garb of brownish cream-buff spots, a chattering Starling who did strut back and forth in most serious-like manner. And I did guess his errand. Indeed, little one, was my heart most wont to say, I, too, sense the difference. But all will be well; soon we shall cast those bells to the stones that peace...
...lecturer. The prints in limited editions will sell for from $10 to $40 a piece. Few museums can boast a more impressive roster of artists: Rockwell Kent, Mahonri Young, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Emil Ganso, John Taylor Arms, Reginald Marsh, Peggy Bacon, John Steuart Curry, Conrad Buff, Eugene Higgins, Jerome Myers...
France's departure from the gold standard will bring further instability in the foreign exchange market, and probably increase the number of players in the game of blind man's buff, now limited to secretly-operated committees in America and England. Foreign trade will dry up into an even smaller trickle than it is at present. The only cheerful prospect is that when the currency-tampering disease becomes well-night universal, all afflicted nations will have to seek an immediate, cooperative cure, and that no insolent rejection of stabilization pleas will be heard from an administration which in 1933 told...
...converging on St. Paul's Cathedral for the Silver Jubilee Service was that of Speaker of the House of Commons, Captain Edward FitzRoy. the ancient Speaker's Coach being pulled by brewery horses driven by a brewery teamster arrayed for this one day in blue plush breeches, buff coat, full-bottomed wig, tricorn...