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...Hollywood cast) on the Pacific coast (TIME, Oct. 29). Mary Boyd (Ann Davis) the "thirtyish" but personable wife of George Boyd (Allan Dinehart) is apprised, by her meddling mother (Elizabeth Patterson), of Boyd's unfaithfulness. To Rochester he has gone on a business trip, accompanied by Christine Kennedy (Helen Flint); openly he has carried on the affair with Christine. But Mary stills her mother's blabbing by telling her that the affair is no news to her; she has known it for months. Boyd and his mistress come to Mary to ask her for a divorce but she contemptuously refuses...
With illustrations in full color after twenty-four paintings by W. Russell Flint, A.R.A. This edition of one of the classics of all literature will at once take its place as one of the most beautiful books of this year--and of many years. W. Russell Flint is now considered the foremost water-color artist of England...
...anti-Catholic literature. More than fifty separate pamphlets and circulars have been spread broadcast. The extent of this movement has caused much comment as to its cost and who is footing the bill. Much secrecy prevails as to the method of circulation. The literature bears the mark of Flint, Mich., and mostly is put into the rural mail boxes at the crossways, under doors and into small town letter boxes during the night. . . . "All the stuff is much the same . . . holds out the most amazing threats of devastation and disaster which will come to the nation if the Pope wins...
...grind through the rock with drills. All day the air is filled with minute particles of stone, deadly dangerous dust is sucked into human lungs with every breath. The dust varies according to the stone, but wherever there is quartz, flint, ganister, sandstone, granite, there silica particles lead all the rest. These tiny glasslike fragments do not dissolve in the moisture of the nasal passages. Sharp-edged, insoluble, they penetrate the lungs, enter the cells. The crowded cells clump together. In an effort to protect the body, fibres begin to grow around the "clumps." Gradually the lungs choke up with...
Charles R. Flint (Flint & Co., Manhattan), newly-married merger impresario, sent inspectors to 206 southern yarn mills. On the basis of inspectors' reports, he made overtures to 140 chosen mills, whose owners, announced Flint & Co. last week, offered "close cooperation, feeling that the plan was sound and for the good of the industry." When, as, and if the Flint merger is effected, he will borrow from the public some $50,000,000, for additional working capital, and will set operating as one industrial unit some 1,500,000 spindles. Yarn will be furnished more cheaply than ever before (said...