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...doctor on board the Empress of Britain, commissioned as an armed merchant-cruiser, served at other posts on sea and ashore. One night standing with the skipper on the bridge of a new destroyer, taking her speed trials in a full gale, he saw something bob past on the crest of a wave. "It had a lifebelt round its body, the face was that of a skeleton, but the scalp was intact and the sodden tresses of hair were black and very long...
...Chicago Opera Company, so-named after an Aïda performance Salmaggi put on at Soldier Field last autumn, ends its Hippodrome run this week on the crest of financial success. During the summer Salmaggi intends to put on open-air Aïda in Newark, Boston, Pittsburgh, in the dirigible hangar in Akron. Between times he will hear new singers, rehearse diligently, get new scenery together for the autumn when he will give two months of opera at the Hippodrome. Backers Mayberry and Carroll care nothing about spreading culture (the tin-cup cry of the Metropolitan). But if their...
...most fabulous dwelling place in the U. S. is the ranch of William Randolph Hearst. Midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, it surveys the Pacific along a 50-mile crest of hills. Five times the size of the District of Columbia, its 240,000 acres give lordly privacy to its little capital. La Cuesta Encantada. On this Enchanted Hill, the monarch's castle rears cathedral towers to the sky. On the hill's slope, lesser castles serve humbly as "guest houses'"-Casa del Mar, Casa del Monte, Casa del Sol. Hard by these are enchanted gardens...
...that time the face of Carbon Mountain was a sheer cliff. Rock near the crest of the cliff, with slight forewarnings, cracked off, crumpled and crashed 150 ft. to the valley floor. Carbon's vertical face thus became a slope...
...appearance he is short (5 ft. 6 in.), chunky (160 lb.), with a white crest above a round, deep-lined, bespectacled face. He favors brown suits with white-braided vests. Like Coolidge, he smokes cigars in paper holders. Next to Idaho's Borah, he is the Senate's most forceful orator. No casual debater, he carefully prepares his infrequent addresses, draws a big gallery. His delivery is marked by physical violence, his whole body vibrating, his pointed finger shooting skyward. His voice is loud and clear, with words coming out like bursts from a machine gun. He sprinkles...