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...worm as slim as a horse hair has sewn a cloak of fear about the misshapen Negroes of St. Kitt's (St. Christopher Island, among the British West Indies), and patched it with deaths. Over the 65 square miles of the island grief croons. Trading ships scurry from the swash of the Caribbean against Basseterre. A sort of pestilence is on the people. Dozens have died. Last week a white man, Dr. J. J. Pawan, bacteriologist, reached there by Pan-American plane from Port of Spain, Trinidad, and found the deaths due to a filariasis...
...stint nothing in making Chicago's opera house second to none for luxury, they also had orders to surmount the edifice with a 21-story office building. In the auditorium are rose-velvet boxes, rose-brocade chairs, a gold and ivory proscenium arch, lush carpeting, amber lights, spacious cloak rooms, a rose-and-gold foyer with towering columns of Roman travertine. Around and over the auditorium are 739,000 square feet of office space, the entire income from which will be put to artistic account...
...well favored and soon made overseer. Then, during the warm, dry days when Potiphar was with his troops, his wife desired the lusty young slave that had come from the north, said to him, "Lie with me." When he refused and fled from the house, leaving his cloak in her hands, Potiphar's wife cried out that she had been attacked, caused Joseph to be jailed...
...cloak of secrecy which has concealed the names of the Crimson backfield which is slated to get the call for the opening clash of the season has finally been withdrawn and the gentlemen of the press who are covering Harvard football may once again lapse temporarily back into the even tenor of their ways. Not for some time have the University coaches had such a promising array of ball-carriers from which to choose a couple of versatile quartets. But it is safe to say that those who answer the referees starting whistle tomorrow may well be forced to give...
...form. In the first part Philippe Marcenat writes to his new wife Isabelle describing his great but jealous love for his previous wife, Odile, telling how she was untrue and shot herself when abandoned. In the second part Isabelle writes how Philippe "hung on. me, as one hangs a cloak on a peg, a soul much more beautiful and worthwhile than mine really was''; also how he died of pneumonia. Throughout Philippe becomes more and more transparent, leading to the conclusion: "If one truly loves, it is not really necessary to attach great importance to the actions of those...