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Chicago's genial J. (for Joseph) Patrick Lannan has parlayed a genteel raiding technique into a corporate empire with interests ranging from nickel vending machines to high-priced dredging operations. Last week Pat Lannan and Arthur Wirtz, ice-show and boxing promoter and real-estate owner, informed directors of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad that they had control of the 10,640-mile road, fourth largest...
...hope is broken is the theme of this moving book. The button-eyes of her shoes, a cracked lithograph of the Sacred Heart, and her aunt's photograph are the familiars of her lonely misery. These possessions symbolize the three elements which transport Judith Hearne to her doom-genteel poverty, a puritan concept of Catholicism, and the aunt who had exploited pity to keep her in domestic servitude...
...Girl," widow of Artist Charles Dana Gibson, second of the "five beautiful Langhorne sisters of Virginia" (including Britain's Lady Astor); in Greenwood. Va. As pictured by her husband, with her sweetly haughty expression, hourglass figure and stylish pompadour, she became the gaslight era's symbol of genteel femininity, influenced the dress, manners and flirtations of a generation of U.S. girls...
...herself sweep onward and upward in triumph? Unfortunately, no. Such a result belongs to the dream world that Blanche inhabits, not to the real world that Tallulah evokes. Too often frustrated, tremulous Blanche was one thing, leopard-like Tallulah another; and they could not exchange their spots. Instead of genteel make-believe, there was a kind of barbaric grand manner...
Donning his most weather-worn clothes, and fired up with expectations of the traditional "sex, beer, riot," many a Freshman will soon head toward Memorial Hall for the Smoker. Like other Harvard customs such as maids and waitresses, the Freshmen Smoker no longer conforms to the lines of genteel tradition...