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...Dukes, they did appreciate technical excellence. Typical is Professor A. Makovsky's amusing Posing for a Portrait (see cut). Longtime instructor in the St. Petersburg Academic Art School, able Illustrator Makovsky showed a pompous bourgeois merchant posing stiffly in a chair while his enthralled chambermaid and houseboy gape over a young artist's shoulder. Nicholas II found it delightful. The picture hung long in the Petrograd Winter Palace...
...many pupils enrolled for the course that every bedroom in the village was taken. Inventive pupils found a stable of 14 abandoned ice wagons, dragged them to a meadow, fitted them up as gypsy caravans, painted the sides with gaudy murals. From miles around the farmers went to gape at artists and ice wagons, were charged 10? admission for sightseeing. After two seasons, however, the colony was unable to make expenses, went bankrupt...
...arterial clamp was released suddenly. The blood spurted only six inches vertically and only 18 inches laterally. That is the maximum spurt with the flesh held clear. But in a normal cut where the edges of the wound do not gape, blood from the back of the head would well rather than spurt. This proves that a severed occipital artery cannot throw blood around a bathroom as the Lamson defense contends...
...discovered some years ago by diggers from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum which had long been probing the great dinosaur graveyard in the desolate badlands near Jensen, Utah. Having sent an abundance of bones back to Pittsburgh, the Carnegie men left the skeleton partly exposed for tourists to gape at, other diggers to retrieve. In due time a party from Washington's Smithsonian Institution arrived, began busily to exhume the remains. They quickly discovered that the neck vertebrae were missing. When high & low search failed to disclose them, it was decided to remove the neck from another dinosaur which...
...tourist camp; planted 2,751,000 trees, 7,000 kudzu vines, nine tons of grass seed; started teaching elderly mountaineers trades and have generally created more hubbub than the Valley has seen since Grant took Shiloh in 1862. Most of the Valley's 2,000,000 souls gape in awe at the everlengthening procession of TVA wonders. Some are very angry indeed but no one is bored. TVA's magic wand waves too fast for the eyes of the rest of the U. S. to follow, one group excepted. Last week this group&151;the U. S. powermen...