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...still glamorous days when Leicester's barge moved down the Thames in the evening, when a bribed servant brought a certain ring to Elizabeth on the morning of Essex's execution. On winter nights, with a sheet of snow on the streets, and the wind making the torches flare, a group of roisterers would come back from an afternoon at the Globe, or bear-baiting on the Bank side, or even from an excursion among the wenches who haunted Cheapside. Past the bridge, with its houses jutting over the water, and the traitors' heads stuck up on poles, they hurry...
...Public Health should have patented his contribution to the long history of respirator development. It is even more surprising that he should have seen fit to accept royalties for the monopoly of this lifesaving device, which he had transferred to Warren E. Collins, Inc. The transaction suggests a distinct flare for business in this Medical School teacher, inasmuch as he had done his research in the tax-free Medical School shop and had received his Harvard salary and a subsidy from the Consolidated Gas Company of New York as well, before the royalties began to come...
Hostility to the Legion's Bonus demand continued to flare elsewhere throughout the land. At Chattanooga ex-soldiery banded together under the name of American Veterans, took a strong anti-Bonus stand. Robert K. Cassatt, Philadelphia banker, resigned from his local Legion post. Another Legion resignee was Major General George B. Duncan, retired, of Lexington, Ky., commander of the 82nd Division. When Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims, retired, an adviser to the National Economy League, announced that he had relinquished an honorary Legion membership, Louis Arthur Johnson, the Legion's new national commander, denied the Legion had any honorary members...
...throughout the land, hopes to see one in every community where race problems exist.* During the past year the Commission has found, to its vexation, much discrimination in unemployment relief. Says the report: "The crucial situation between whites and Negroes was dramatically impressed upon America last year by the flare-up of lynching...
...almost 6,000 people, and six acres of roof garden are novel features of the construction, which is now going on between Fifth and Sixth Avenue and Forty-eighth and Fiftieth Streets. Photographs show excavation proceeding at night and a rivet heater. In the interior scenes shadows flicker and flare with Hogarthian exaggeration...