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...making change a Vatican City dweller would give...
...Louis, Michael Hirak, rent-free shack-dweller, who burned to death in a coal stove, was found to have amassed $20,000 by saving each month all but $1.35 of his salary...
Other calisthenics proponents were irritated, included Professor of Physical Education Robert Tait McKenzie at the University of Pennsylvania, who retorted that the average city dweller neglected his abdominal regions and hence needed organized exercise. And Dr. Eugene Lyman Fiske, medical director of Manhattan's Life Extension Institute, who scoffed: "Walking in the city is the greatest camouflage I know of. All you will get from it, with the possible benefits for the lower limbs in some cases, is flat feet...
From the viewpoint of the reader, incidentally, the proposed legislation is of minor significance. The Boston dweller who must have his "Oil" will simply no longer be obliged to travel to Cambridge to get it. The languishing Boston bookshops will again take on their line of pristine Republican prosperity. And, for the Book of the Month Club, Lewis, Deeping, Sinclair and Dreiser may now be enrolled once more on the national eligibility list...
...first prize was won by Claggett Wilson of Manhattan, 'The second by Mr. Jensen. Artist Wilson, called "Clag" by his cronies, is darkly massive, fastidious, redolent of success. He suggests no garret-dweller, speaks in a deep voice of suave enthusiasms. He is not easy to classify, being proud of the scope of his work. He has done fanciful murals for the home of Mrs. James Cox Brady, widow of the financier, at Bernardsville, N. J., for Capitalist Harry F. Guggenheim's Long Island estate. Elsie de Wolfe, famed mistress of decor, paid a professional compliment when she engaged Artist...