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...from exposure, broken leg and bloodpoisoning. When he regained speech he told how the Grey Ghost had broken its mooring, leaving him on San Clemente beach. He had tried to scale a cliff, but had fallen into a cactus pit. Rescuers found him, a moaning skeleton propped on its elbow, after eight days...
FINDING THE WORTH WHILE IN THE ORIENT-Lucian Swift Kirtland-McBride ($3.50). World travel, which means "The Orient" to most people, is becoming so common that a book of this sort at one's elbow is apt to be disastrously intriguing to all who should stay at home. It costs, says Author Kirtland, just about $15 in gold for every day you are on shore in the Orient. For a decent world-circling tour on your own, you need $3,000-just about what it costs, with "extras," on the round-the-world travel agency tours. With this fair...
...boor, who enters a European theatre must tip the usher. At Parisian music halls the ushers, vociferously rampant, will, if not tipped, stand at one's elbow and cry: "Service! Service! SERVICE!" almost indefinitely.* Last week the publicity agent of the Parisian Usher's Association issued an explanatory bit of propaganda: 1) The ushers are not paid to usher. 2) Instead they pay 50 centimes (2?) a night to the management for each seat assigned tp them. 3) Therefore they must figure on a minimum tip of one franc (4?) from each person whom they usher into...
...Pinkerton '27, captain of the University polo team, who fractured his right arm between the elbow and shoulder in the recent encounter with the Yale trio, is resting comfortably at the Phillips House of the Massachusetts General Hospital. He will remain there for two weeks...
...might imagine, from this position of the ring, that few goals were scored. But the ball was never thrown. To be sent through the ring the ball had to be struck with the elbow or wrist, or bounced from...