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...junction of two country roads near Rockford, Ill. stands one of the queerest of all U.S. war plants. It is a white clapboard farmhouse with old-fashioned gambrel roof, dormer windows, neat flower boxes at the window sills. It is also the home office, sales branch and factory of the Harrington Bros. Machine Tool & Fixture Co., manufacturers of $1,000-a-month worth of machine tools for making shells and tank turrets...
...York State hospital for the insane (Bloomingdale) where he was forcibly kept from drink for nearly a year. On leaving, he was sufficiently cured to write three books, "to dance with Mrs. Vincent Astor . . . and win the Herald Tribune garden-club prize for the best-kept lawns and flower beds...
...Brown is such a dull Collor," moaned the Sage of the Age I can't even think of a brown Flower. Even Cole is black, and Waters colorless. Of course, certain chemical Extracts are brown, the beef Pattee in the dining-Halls is brown, and Barnes are often painted Brown, but all in all it's dull...
...service are what the politicians love to refer to as "the flower of American manhood." Maybe we are; however, at the moment I do not feel much like a flower. . . . We are pretty well able to take care of ourselves and if not we at least don't want Senator Bilgewater and Congressman Bafflebrain telling us when we can have a drink...
...Berlin Tchelitchew was encouraged by renowned Ballet Master Sergei Diaghilev, is now considered "one of the few great stage designers of his period." But Gertrude Stein discovered Tchelitchew as a painter. Explained Miss Stein, after seeing his Basket of Strawberries: "This is why there is no flower this is why there is no flower in color this is why there...