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Another criticism contemporary with the unveiling of the two murals, appearing in the Boston Evening Transcript stated. "...And indeed here are found in a marked degree those qualities which make a mural painting great--nobility of subject together with able and decorative handling in expressing it fully. In short a fine and strong conception in terms of color and light and shade, which make in themselves a beautiful decoration of a given surface...
...longer on a stone, last week "was rescued by the relief expedition sent into the tundra wilderness of Siberia to seek him. No marvel of jasper or onyx, this; it is a large rock with a fused crust, composed of iron and silicates. It is the largest meteorite ever found on the earth, and Prof. Kulik has been looking at it ever since last summer...
...blaze scarred the night, and eventually came reports that a great meteorite had fallen somewhere in Yenissey province, destroying a great expanse of forest. Several expeditions failed to find it, and then the World War put an end to them. Last year Professor Kulik penetrated the wilderness, found traces; and last summer at the head of another expedition he was successful...
Entering his cabin last week, they found, as they had hoped, several packets of diamonds. These the steward intended to give to Mclntyre, the policeman; Mclntyre would give them to Frances Landau and she would give them to her father, who would sell them to bedizened women. In addition to the gems, they found the chief steward, a tall, good looking man, popular with all Berengaria passengers, whose income from tips was $15,000 a year, whose valet was Thomas Crossley Earnshaw, who had a wife and a cottage in Southampton, England, and who had been a Cunard employe...
Then, realizing that $39,000,000 worth of diamonds still remained to be accounted for, they looked for new victims. Antwerp is one of the two capitals of diamonds. Hence they looked for a passenger from Antwerp. On the White Star liner Olympic lists, they found the name of Grand Rabbi Jehuda Leib Twersky. Hence, oh landing, they ducked into his cabin, ran a comb through the silky mesh of his beard and made him uncover his wrinkled body to their gaze...