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...patronizing the bar of the Green Man? Why was Ordino's exclusive club so popular? What was Ordino's connection with Lady Judith and Professor Sir Gregory Fawsitt? Who was the man in the long, soiled mackintosh, the man with the deep-set evil eyes and the complexion of a vampire? To some of these questions the reader can soon supply the answer. Ordino's club was a blind for selling drugs. Ordino was in cahoots with Lady Judith and Sir Gregory, whose yacht-cruises were not innocent pleasure trips but drug-buying expeditions to the Orient...
United Carbon made $1,872,000 in 1935, against $1,452,000 in 1934. The 1935 profit was best since the company's organization in 1925. Earnings had a distinctly automotive complexion, since this company, along with Columbian Carbon Co., produces about two-thirds of the U. S. supply of carbon black for which the main use is in automobile tires. United Carbon has no preferred stock, last year made $4.70 a common share, sold last week at about 16 times earnings...
...polished as his published works. He admires Proust, reads Jacques Maritain, is interested in Spengler, Freud, Hindu philosophy, occasionally passes days without speaking to anyone except hotel employes. Slightly stout, he wears sedate dark clothes, black ties, might be taken for a prosperous English banker except for his dark complexion and intense black eyes...
...your complexion bear his closest scrutiny?" the State of New York inquired of its young women in newspaper advertisements last week. An amorous young pair were pictured ogling nose to nose. "MILK FOR A GLAMOROUS COMPLEXION," cried the State of New York. "Each glass of milk you drink is a calcium treatment. . . . Look what milk does for a baby's skin...
...clad in sensible check garments, and threatening taxi-drivers with a green umbrella. The French portrait of the Englishman is superimposed upon this unwelcome image. It is the picture of an inelegant, stupid, arrogant, and inarticulate person with an extremely red face. The French seem to mind our national complexion more than other nations. It gets on their nerves. They attribute it to the overconsumption of ill-cooked meat. They are apt, for this reason, to regard us as barbarian and gross. Only at one point does the French picture coincide with the German picture. The French share with...