Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flame of Love. Since this Chinese spectacle of ancient silk weaving has been backed by a silk firm (Cheney Bros.), it might be expected that as drygoods it would be very beautiful. But the story has as much place in it as a bull in a china shop. It has less action than the bull. It saunters deliberately through the legendary romance of the silk-weaving championship of Canfu, when a youth who could spin the magic flame silk was nearly consumed in the 'blandishments of a temptress instigated by a wily rival. Save for some provocative muscle dances...
...designing in mining districts between Mexico and Alaska. He improved the process of washing gold. He spent one winter in a hut on an island in the Arctic to study a project for installing a hydro-electric plant. After many years of this practical mining, he founded a firm of engineers specializing in construction of shafts and mining plants. His four big mining ventures were successful; two in Colorado?"Tomboy" and "Smugglers Union"; and two in California?"Plymouth"and "Mountain...
...grass, along the edge of a clay road to the night prayer meeting in the small country schoolhouse. "That seemed to make religion important and added interest to the hymns. When you sang 'Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone, Dare to have a purpose firm, Dare to make it known,' you were sufficiently interested at least to walk through the mud and rain, if not sufficiently brave to go into the den with the lions...
...Russell William Thaw was born in 1910, five years before Thaw divorced his wife for misconduct allegedly in Germany while Thaw was interned in the Mattewan Asylum for the criminally insane in Manhattan. Thaw denies that he is the father; Evelyn Nesbit is equally firm in supporting the boy's legitimacy...
...member, Mr. Delano, was born in New York in 1874 and graduated from Yale in 1895. The Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, awarded him his diploma in Architecture in 1903. Mr. Delano is df the firm of Delano & Aldrich, designers of such well-known Manhattan club buildings as- the Knickerbocker, Colony and India House. For seven years he was professor of Design at Columbia University...