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Great was the reception granted this announcement. Few, however, were those who understood it, ever dreamed of understanding it. After the glamorous reception, flaws began to appear in Dr. Einstein's mother equations, their accuracy was challenged. Once again grizzled Einstein retired to his iron-doored garret room and set to work with a colleague. Dr. W. Mayer, on the revision and proof of his formulae...
This profound thesis is considerably diluted in a new drama by Britisher Norman MacOwan which substitutes sentimentalism and pasteboard glamor for the more rugged emphasis of the late great Thomas Carlyle. Actor Leslie Banks is introduced as a penniless Scotsman, living morally and thriftily in the garret of a bordello and studying to be an insurance actuary. Actress Helen Menken is a wan creature who faints on his doorstep. He befriends her to the extent of a bed, a portion of his gruel and the services of a doctor. The backslid daughter of a scholar, she can quote reams...
...Secretary Newton insisted it was a short circuit. Washington fire chiefs blamed a faulty flue in the chimney from Secretary Newton's office. A fire had been burning on his hearth barely an hour before while he was dressing there for the White House party. The half-story garret above was a fire-nest where flames fed greedily on bundled papers in storage...
...BORN FEB 1 1909 ATTENDED PROFESSIONAL CHILDREN'S SCHOOL WHEN YOUNG SENT TO BENNETTS BECAUSE SOME KIND WEALTHY LADIES THOUGHT I NEEDED FRESH AIR LIKE TO STUDY GREATEST AMBITION TO LIVE IN ITALY IN A COLD GARRET WRITE BAD VERSE AND DRINK YELLOW WINE WHEN I'M OLD WOULD RATHER TRAVEL A LOT DOING ODD JOBS THAN BE A DEPENDABLE INGENUE BUT I LOVE THE THEATRE ANYWHERE WON'T MAKE MUCH MONEY BUT MAYBE I'LL WRITE STOP THE UNIVERSE AROUND US A GRAND BOOK A FAREWELL TO ARMS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NOVEL THINK THE MOTION PICTURE A GRAND MEDIUM...
...became emperor of the island of Corfu, returned to Venice as a gentleman of leisure, enjoyed a nun as his mistress, ran foul of the authorities for selling books on sorcery and was imprisoned in the "Leads" (il Piombi), famed Venetian jail so called because it was in the garret of the Ducal Palace, whose roof was covered with sheets of lead. Eventually he escaped, with the help of a fellow-prisoner, by cutting a hole in the roof, then clambering down and into a window of the palace. He wandered to Paris, London, Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin, Barcelona, always getting...