Word: easterly
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...Paris Conservatoire. After composing a symphony of which he says "It was terrible. . . . Have you got an aspirin?" he met Marie Dressier at a party, regaled her with his musical arrangement of President & Mrs. Harding receiving the children for the annual eggroll on the White House lawn at Easter. Marie Dressier put him on a benefit performance bill. Presently he was appearing at the Bat Club in London where Tallulah Bankhead and the Prince of Wales were equally enthusiastic...
...hush of this ambient twilight came the bridal procession, the feathery green of tender laurel that wreathed choir stalls, pulpit and rood screen, and the curving fronds of a few giant palms massed in the chancel, pointing the way to the altar where the snowy chalices of tall Easter lilies were sentineled by blazing candelabra, seven-branched. . . . "Very pretty with lovely light brown hair and gray-blue eyes, the bride's youthfulness suddenly seemed to take on a certain queenliness as she swept from end to end of this lane of light. Her gown of soft white crinkly crepe...
...profit of $1,125,000 by exercising his option.¶ In Detroit, result of liquidation of two closed banks, clerks day by day thumbed alphabetically through lists of depositors sending out checks for 30% of the deposits tied up since Feb. 11 bringing a cumulative wave of belated Easter buying to stores (which had to take on extra employes) until a total of $131,000,000 had again been put in circulation. ¶ In Manhattan, result of hard times which have come upon insurance companies (TIME, April 17). National Surety Co., big writer of surety bonds for the bank deposits...
...desire to spend the day quietly in his little Alpine cottage near Berchtesgaden he could not avoid the attentions of his delirious followers. They roused him with flowers, they roused him with telegrams, bottles of wine, boxes of cigars (Chancellor Hitler does not smoke, drinks nothing stronger than beer), Easter eggs, Westphalian hams, lumps of sugar for his police dogs. Back in the Chancellery in Berlin the presents came in by the carload. Sofa cushions were the most popular, there were over 1,000 of them; also clocks, books, pictures, rugs, clothes, a birthday cake weighing 170 lb., dogs, canaries...
...Chicago, Marion Harrison, Negro, 19, stood on an elevated railway platform, held up male passengers with his corncob pipe, forced them to remove their clothes, acquired an Easter wardrobe. He put it on, went out to lunch, returned to the platform, held up another passenger to secure his necktie, was arrested, chortled to detectives: "I got a nifty outfit...