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...ship sailed low over Layton, N. J., a man ran out with a shotgun and fired a charge up into the big silvery bag. He accompanied his shot with dancing, gesticulations and lilliputian shouts. The lead pellets, though buckshot, tore only small holes in the ship's fabric. But they might have struck machinery, caused disaster. Had the Los Angeles been inflated with inflammable hydrogen instead of inert helium, she might have blown up. And anyway, it is not proper to shoot at the U. S. Navy's one and only big dirigible. Carpenter Merton Hankins, the lilliputian...
...more graphic title would be Portrait of a Man in a Home-made Suit." Of Artist Sir William Orpen's portrait of Sir Ray Lankester: "The design of the sitter's suit shows dots and blotches as large as buttons. On what loom, one wonders, was such a fabric woven?" About all that the tailor-editor-art critic approved was Artist Oswald Birley's portrait of George V in black jacket, double-breasted fawn waistcoat, grey striped trousers...
...great lawgivers survey the prairies-Hammurabi, Moses, Pharaoh, Solon, Solomon, the Caesars, Charlemagne, Napoleon. No carven motto is more obvious than that above the Supreme Court bench: "Eyes and ears are poor witnesses when the soul is barbarous." All of the ornament has significance and is worked into the fabric of the building. The Goodhue family are oldtime Connecticut dwellers. Architect Goodhue was born in Pomfret Hill. Not for him was the European interlude enjoyed by most architecture students. At the age of 16 he went from Russel's Collegiate & Commercial Institute in New Haven to Manhattan where...
...secondly, that the Laborites did not repudiate the Balfour Note when they were in power; thirdly, that the principle laid down by Lord Balfour is now so firmly embroidered on the warp and woof of Reparations and War Debts that to dis entangle it would rend the fiscal fabric of Europe. Unwittingly, the angry pixie had given his Conservative enemies a chance to scare British voters by telling them that the Laborites are so unprincipled (and probably Bolshevik, too, by gad!) that they even repudiate Lord Balfour, and say that France is worse than Russia ! Next day in the House...
...uncompleted British airship R-100 was recently pulled out of her hangar at Howden, Yorkshire, was revealed last week. Rats, less cunning than those which infest but do not destroy surface ships, had invaded the hangar and threatened to eat the R-100's fabric. While the airship was safely out of doors, poison killed scores and scores of the rats...