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...hairlike crackle lines and finally by the jewel-like glow and brilliance of the minutely intricate enamel painting. Nearly all "antique Satsuma" sold today is spurious, distinguished first by lustreless colors which result from artificial aging and second by crackles wide enough to have rubbled into them the grime of spurious centuries. Modern Satsuma when offered frankly as such is generally an excellent buy in Japan, reflects ever fresh glory on the ancient Clan Satsuma. It was this clan of statesmen and warriors (for pottery making is but a Satsuma sideline) which Japanese suspected last week of a deft...
...brought some constructive criticism in effort to improve on existing conditions, then the Hoot might have something to make a noise about. It cannot be particularly proud of the unoriginal sport of standing in the gutter and slinging mud at houses but recently cleaned of some of the same grime...
...York established the first ambulance service in the U. S. Its building, for decades muggy and stuffy, is older. De Witt Clinton, onetime (1803-15) Mayor of New York, laid the cornerstone in 1811. Grass spread about it then; the East River was a pleasant prospect. Now all is grime and noise...
Accompanied by his wife, his daughter, Mr. Walton entered a kiosk. From the platform he surveyed with disfavor a gloomy pathway, splotched with grime and puddles, lined with tracks. "Whatever would they want tracks for?" he inquired of his wife as the three of them jumped down off the platform, paraded off into the dingy passage. Soon a train nosed around the curve, gathered speed, screamed toward Mr. Walton, his wife, his daughter, ground brakes, shivered, stopped. Passengers, lifting themselves from the floor where the abrupt halt had put them, watched Mr. Walton, his wife, his daughter clamber aboard, smiling...
Wall Street. For those who do not know it already and for those who like to hear it repeated, this play dilates upon the fact that in Wall Street there is little or no virtue. Take John H. Perry (Arthur Hohl) for instance. The grime of a Massachusetts truck farm is hardly off him, before he finds himself filthy with the lucre of the "street." It even gets into his blood. He says so himself. The next thing the audience knows, old John H.'s son is discovered hotly engaged in monkey business, for which tactics he is expelled...