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This fashion of making bricks has great wastage. In the kiln heat a great portion of the bricks warp and curl. Some can be sold for seconds and used in the hidden supporting walls of low grade apartment houses. Most, however, must be crushed and used as road-making filler...
...idea of what U. S. newsgatherers will say about M. Poiret could be gleaned from a space filler done last week by one Henry Beckett of the New York Evening Post, who hashed up half-truths thus: "In Paris M. Poiret inhabits a studio with leopard skins on the floors, frescoes on the walls and stone figures of nude women on pedestals. He gained note as a builder of styles for fat women, and he learned about women-fat women -from umbrellas. He used to be an apprentice to an umbrella manufacturer, and he studied the lines and curves...
...smooth bench, a mold board of many grooves close at hand. An apprentice brings up a bundle of tobacco leaves from the cool, dark storage basement. The journeyman, with quick, accurate slashes, cuts a broad leaf on the bias into strips adequate for the cigar wrapper. Then some long filler, a slide of the flattened palm, and the cigar is made. He fastens the loose wrapper end with some glue, places the cigar in a mold groove. Later comes trimming, boxing, and finally sealing with the internal revenue stamp...
...press or the editor to the races, the obituary in the first edition is apt to be brief. And so it fell out in the death of Thomas Mott Osborne, famed warden of Sing Sing, whose demise the Boston Herald covered last week. The notice- a two-inch filler on the front page -was headlined simply...
Whenever the metropolitan press finds coaching to write of moving picture actresses and all the other luminaries of modern existence, it turns to the college or filler and rams into its pages to minis after column concerning such vital college matters as Ford cars or cafeterias. If these articles were sane and sound or in any way represented the colleges as they really are, there could be no complaint. But never is that the case...