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Newlyweds who took a broad hint and dropped $2 or more into Clerk McCormick's open, cash-filled drawer, got a "God bless you." Those who paid nothing had "Cheap skate!" yelled after them. One man testified that when he gave $1, Clerk McCormick remarked with some disgust: "One lousy buck...
Somebody entered the London hotel bedroom of Constance Thomas Emery after she had left for the evening with her husband Thomas Emery, Cincinnati chemicals heir. The stranger opened a locked drawer, took a jewel-case containing a $37,700 rope of 85 matched pearls, diamond brooches in the shapes of a terrier, a rose and a duck...
Near Little Rock, Ark. last fortnight was found a school teacher who had taken to 'legging. Graduate of the University of Arkansas, she gave her name as "Maureen." Said she: "I was paid in county warrants but I could not get them cashed. . I have a drawer full of them. ... A destitute farmer near the school makes and furnishes the whiskey. I retail it for him. . . . Bootlegging isn't as profitable as one would think. But I make a few dollars. Hell, I have to live...
...every U. S. citizen who buys a painting or a piece of sculpture, probably 500 buy prints: etchings, engravings, mezzotints, woodcuts. Prints are comparatively inexpensive. Even in a city apartment a portfolio of 100 will fit in a bureau drawer. Because of their fluctuating value they appeal to the trading instinct latent in all collectors. But the appreciation of the graphic arts has this difference from the appreciation of painting: a man may have a sound knowledge of Renaissance painting without knowing the difference between tempera and gesso. But a print collector cannot appreciate what he has in his portfolio...
...almost traditional manner of mounting stairs, two steps at a time, and double quick. There is a vignette still vivid in the Vagabond's memory of a scholarly gentleman stepping out of the range of cameras. And a letter not yet grown musty in an undergraduate's drawer is a striking witness to the surprise of a student in an other college who had heard of the President's dining informally with undergraduates in Dunster House. Truly, the Vagabond is more interested in men than in facts and theories...