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When Mr. Tasker went to his worship in the darkness of dawn, he flung his stunted daughters from their beds to serve as acolytes, If the ceremonies were bungled, Mr. Tasker booted the acolytes or smashed their faces with a pitchfork. On feast days, the gods were offered the carcasses of horses or cows. The blood thirst that the gods thus developed happened to save Mr. Tasker the embarrassment and expense of burying his father when he, a drunken tramp, was throttled in the pig-yard one night by Mr. Tasker's watchdog. It was at moments of this sort...
...rest of the roads in their territory. Unfortunately, everybody wanted the fat and nobody the lean roads. Meanwhile, the Van Sweringens quietly annexed the Nickel Plate, C. & O., Erie, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley (TIME, Aug. 11, 18, April 6), and became a fourth party at the prospective feast. Now, while the four cannot agree on details of distributing small roads among them, a fifth would-be claimant appears-Mr. Leonor F. Loree, Chairman of the Delaware and Hudson...
...notoriously feast -or -famine character of the railway equipment business was illustrated by the annual report of the Baldwin Locomotive Co. for 1924. In 1923, the company's net profit before dividends was $6,516,465, or $25.58 on each of the 200,000 common shares, after paying the 7% dividend on the 200,000 preferred shares. In consequence, after paying $1,400,000 on both its preferred and common stock, profit and loss surplus was brought up to $19,847,242. Last year, however, net before dividends was only $1,320,026, or only $6.60 on each preferred share...
...family, though poor, gave a great feast for him to which they invited Prince Ahab and his daughter, Judith. Through a night of soft blue airs and revelry, under boughs that let fall their petals like odorous snows, Jonah and Judith walked together; and the gaunt prophet, friend of foxes, trembled with love for the pale daughter of a Prince. She, also moved by love, was kind to him; they kissed under a jasmine vine. "I should like to be poor like you," she said. All night, all night, when she was gone, Jonah wandered through the orchards of Zebulon...
...Degroot's six-piece orchestra. Degroot is at present the greatest attraction of the Piccadilly Hotel where he plays in the foyer in the afternoon, in the dining room in the evening and in the ballroom at night. Declared the King: "I have never heard such a feast of music in my life"; the Queen, asked by Degroot if she would command him to play a '"number," replied: "It is all so exquisite, I have no preference." The King was entirely at home. He stood, legs apart, hands behind back, facing the room in front of a roaring...