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Of the ladies, the most intriguing is Diane. "People were quite ready to describe her as stupid, but her mouth was so red that everything she said seemed intelligent to me." Other stories concern a Chinese curio hunt in which one of the most remarkable curios is a lady's...
Ancient, exotic Africa works changes on all the travelers except Mme. Momoro. She has been there before. Ogle feels himself shrinking into a bitter, puny ineffectual as he drives with her over multicolored mountains and desert in the wake of the barbarian Tinker, whose progress, strewn with coin and prodigious...
Secret Service raids on a counterfeiting conspiracy, characterized in the New York afternoon edition as "gigantic," increased the population of the New York jails by 22 and added to the government's collection of criminal curios about $100,000 in bogus bank notes. Although a cryptic secrecy veiled the...
The following books have been added to the library of the Union during the month of February: Lyman Abbott, "Reminiscences"; Mildred Aldrich, "A Hilltop on the Marne"; M. Anesaki, "Buddhist Art"; Arnold Bennett, "These Twain"; John Jay Chapman, "Greek Genius," and "Memories and Milestones"; Winston Churchill, "A Far Country"; Frank...
Within a short time a collection of Phillippine relics and curios, the gift of Mr. A. J. Boyden '95 will be placed in the Peabody Museum, where there is already a rather incomplete Phillippine collection.