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...this time Devens was putting on one of his usual exhibitions of bewildering curves. His amazingly fast delivery was steadier than ever, and most effective in the corner-cutting outshoots, which start from a good distance to the side of the pitcher's box and fade away over the left quarter of the home plate...
Danube Conference, Sympathetic London pressfolk were distressed to see their Prime Minister's optimism wither and fade a few hours after he had made welcome, in the cream & gold Cabinet Room at No. 10 Downing St., the members of the Danube Conference at which Britain, France, Germany and Italy sat in. Plainly, spade-bearded Dino Grandi, snapping-eyed Italian Foreign Minister, was smoldering with anger and so was Germany's Dr. Bernhard W. von Bülow, a nephew of the late great Prince & Chancellor. Honest Scot MacDonald was made from the first to feel that his prior conversations with Premier...
...gets drunk, attacks one of the boys who tease his addled wits, grandmother will not allow the family to shut him up. Curly was her husband's bastard; she had raised him. Gradually Amy is drawn into the family affairs; the memory of her own troubles begins to fade. When grandmother dies, her own troubles look unreal. Geoffrey comes out for the funeral. He has tried to cure his marital troubles by an affair with voluptuous Nina. After his night of infidelity he woke up with a headache like a hangover. By that token he knows his wife...
...company was almost entirely a one-man affair, Eastman personally making every decision of import. In 1925 he retired as president and general manager, became chairman of the board. Said he: "The remaining years are very precious to me and I am now doing what the movies call a 'fade-out.'" A thoroughgoing philanthropist, he gave away some $75,000,000, probably retained only a small Kodak interest. Major gifts were: to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $19,500,000 (he was Technology's "Mysterious Mr. Smith"); to the University of Rochester, $35,000,000; to Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes...
...this point let us lake leave of the plot, trusting to the celluloid deities to protect virtue in distress to the last foot of film, and to the final fade-out, where their responsibility ends...