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...Orleans, first of the fourth class of five Treaty cruisers, differs little in length, beam or speed (32 1/2 knots) from her immediate predecessors. But she was built with 10% more electrical welding on her hull than the Indianapolis. Her butt straps (where plates overlap) were welded, thus saving precious weight in rivets. Weight saved was put into armor plate. The Indianapolis is armored only in vital spots. The New Orleans, paragon of her group, can stop an 8-in. shell anywhere. Her after deck will be placed further aft than those of previous Treaty cruisers. permitting the installation...
...cinema makes this more effective by showing a newspaper headline-"Mrs. Buckley Joyce Thomas captured by China bandits''-which shows that Thomas is still up to his trick of faking stories. A more important change-making Buckley Joyce Thomas the hero of a farce instead of the butt of a satire-is less fortunate but three crack performances (Lee Tracy as Thomas, James Gleason as his secretary, Eugene Sigaloff as Prince Alexander) help make the picture briskly entertaining...
...spaniel was one of the best known dogs in the country, certainly the most famous in Cambridge, and has been commemorated in many magazines, as well as in recent books on Harvard. Phantom was stone deaf, and as such was the butt of many jokes...
...mile out of Ringgold, La., a young Negro last week marched an elderly bank cashier and his wife along the railroad track in their night clothes. When he attempted to rape the woman, the husband fought him off, was pounded to death with a pistol butt...
...last that caused critics' mouths to drop. Louis Eilshemius is a little old gentleman with a beard, a beady eye and the butt of a frayed cigar, who is known as New York's most persistent exhibition visitor. He is one of the most persistent newspaper letter writers in the country. Not long ago he adopted the title Mahatma (Great Soul) and has spent a small fortune printing little pamphlets and books to prove that he is the greatest painter, poet, musician and "Ex Fancy Amateur Dancer" in the world. He has also invented a portable piano...