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Many another delicacy, too numerous to mention, was printed on the gilt menus, while the Zakouska, Russian equivalent for hors d'ouevres, consisted of everything from an olive to caviar, not excepting sterletes sigi-a rare and costly fish...
Much feeling was manifested at a recent meeting of Art Students (young and old) while discussing Harvard's mysterious dip into subterranean, dark cavities in its effort to clandestinely, yet conveniently, reach Rome and accept a (gefill't a fish) gilt-edge catechism direct from the skeleton hand of that animated stalking, rattling boss of the profitable Catacombs...
...stockmarket has continued to prove the most active spot in business. Volume has been continuing at about an average of 2,000,000 shares a day, with rising prices in both rails and industrials. Liberty bonds, on the other hand, have been weak and other gilt-edged bonds have been stationary or weak-another normal sign of a good-sized "bull market." The heavy trading in shares has drawn forth many comparisons with active markets in the past-particularly with that of 1901. As yet, however, the present market has still to equal many records established in that financial classic...
...movement of the crops to market, inaugurated early this year because of favorable prices, has stiffened money rates perceptibly, and netted advances in gilt-edged bonds. Yet prospects of much higher interest rates are widely considered to be remote...
...Texas Christian University, Mrs. Mary Couts Burnett, of Fort Worth, has donated $1,000,000 of Government and other gilt-edge securities and an interest in oil wells which should amount to at least...