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Next evening Critic Gilbert Gabriel of the New York American spied the disgusted playwright at a Broadway premiere. Funster Gabriel, whose cane conceals a gleaming rapier, leaped from his seat, pursued Mr. Rice up the aisle at the point of the rapier...
...carried on in collaboration with the tropical stations of other colleges. Special emphasis is placed on the study of economic plants, with one hundred acres of the Institutions devoted solely to these. This station has had influence on the economic destiny of Cuba, for the study of sugar cane has enabled the Cubans to produce a better grade of sugar cane and to maintain its place at the head of the sugar industry...
...head was not bared in accordance with the tenets of convention but boldly, jauntily attired with a felt hat. The professor's composure was, to put it mildly, upset and without a word of warning he swept down upon the hapless figures and with one expert swipe of his cane divested th head of its burden. It was only then that he discovered the identity of the offender. He was a very important visiting professor. Showing no signs of upset the guardian of maners stamped off leaving the visiting scholar somewhat confused as to the way things are done...
...first diamond James Buchanan ("Diamond Jim") Brady bought cost $90. When he died in 1917 he had spent $2,000,000 on precious stones. Besides such curios as a diamond-tipped cane, he owned 30 complete sets of jeweled cuff links, studs, tie pins, fobs, watch chains, etc. A railroad man, he enjoyed blazoning the fact by wearing what became one of his most famed diamond arrangements- the Transportation Set. The diamonds of the Transportation Set have long been dispersed but last week Black, Starr & Frost -Gorham, oldtime Manhattan jewelers, put on exhibition the platinum settings from which the stones...
...were quartered in agricultural camps, given free housing, free water, free wood, free medical service. In spite of small wages it was a beneficent system?too beneficent, as it turned out. The Chinese coolie who contentedly grew rice in the river bottoms, and the Filipino who irrigated the sugar-cane fields, had children who were U. S. citizens. The second and third generation of field workers, after much free schooling, refused to live and do as their forebears. So the importation of labor went on and Depression caught the islands with a far larger white-collar population than an agricultural...