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...debated the question with quips sharpened by a vague anxiety. Raoul La Chapelle was popular, the manager of a department. Now for over a week he had not been to the office, nor had he telephoned or written to say where he was. Ever since the night of a feêe when, expected to dinner, he had failed to appear, Raoul La Chapelle had been lost as completely as if he were dead. At last the Minister of Agriculture himself sent three men to Raoul's rooms. And there, sure enough, was Raoul...
...taking his own life. . . . Murder? That seemed more likely, said friends of his who, like most young Frenchmen, had read the tales of Edgar Allen Poe. But the police said no to both hypotheses. What had happened was quite simple, they said. Raoul La Chapelle had dressed for the feête, had climbed up on the stool to see himself full length in the glass. Standing so, he had taken hold of the grips, connected to elastic cords, on which he did his daily exercises. He was a great one for physical culture, was he not? Well, and then...
...exhibition at the Milch Galleries, in New York, of the paintings of one Thomas Monan, a man who sat down at 9 o'clock every morning for some forty years with a black cigar in his mouth, to paint pictures for the Sauta Fe railroad, and whose work is as full of life and energy today as it is empty of form or grace...
...Missouri Pacific, Rock Island, Santa Fe, Union Pacific...
...what one might call "well off"-a director of a half dozen corporations including those which make Shredded Wheat Biscuits and run the Santa Fe trains, the owner of a comfortable supply of bond coupons, the husband of a charming wife, and a thrice elected member of the U. S. House of Representatives. In the House there are two ways to attain fame. One either has to be a character like Wet Representative La Guardia who has spent all summer trying to be arrested, or Dry Representative Upshaw, who sees hellfire in every drink; or else be a leader like...