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...philosophy: "On a cushion which accompanies me everywhere is my philosophy: 'Never complain. Never explain.' Nothing ages a woman like worry or bad temper. . . . Make-up is an art that every woman must learn for herself. There is one element which must always go into it. Plenty of time...
...swimming champion, St. Louis secretary, Parisian stockbroker, Amsterdam diamond merchant and one-eyed Antwerp insurance salesman. Few of them spoke English. The difference in tongues did not confuse them in the least. They had met, not to talk, but to play billiards for the world's amateur three-cushion championship, being held for the first time in the U. S. The soft, agreeable click of ivory balls was one language with which all eight were thoroughly familiar...
Expert billiard players, disgusted with ordinary billiards because it is so easy, have never ceased devising harder variations. Three-cushion billiards, in which the cue ball must touch three cushions before completing a carom, is the most difficult of all. As a swimmer, Lee specialized in long distance, won the U. S. championship five times. Because of his swimming prowess he was asked to join the New York Athletic Club in 1925. When he took to utilizing the club's billiard tables, it naturally occurred to him to learn the game the longest, hardest...
...more money than it would ever get back. Said this onetime Senator scathingly: "I predict that if an act of God strikes one of these lines, the Government will have to take it over, unless the Administrator requires the rates charged to be large enough to provide a cushion, in which case they will be prohibitive. If we are going into this, let's go in on a sound basis. I am sick of the disillusionment handed out every year to farmers by Congress...
...once a group of Congressmen found themselves in agreement with a Brain Truster. President Roosevelt and Treasury experts had argued that to adjust the proposed tax so that corporations might put by some of their profits as a cushion against hard times would decrease its yield below the required $620,000,000. Last week the House Ways & Means subcommittee, assigned to write the bill, whipped out a graduated schedule of rates which it claimed would permit corporate cushions and still bring in all the money the President and Treasury wanted. Its scale: a 15% tax on the first...