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...with understanding that they cannot understand them. This book is as English as Huntley and Palmer's. Its jokes are English in their unobstrusive dreariness. Its pages abound with Dickensy eccentrics and Arch bald Marshallish country life, and, in addition, there is an unmistakable flavor of Kipling and Ian Hay and Conan Doyle...
...motor coaches coiled springs motor truck units corn bundlers movers corn cultivators plows corn pickers potato diggers corn shellers rakes corn shredders reapers cream separators culti-packers seeding machines engines side rakes ensilage, cutters speed trucks grain binders sweep rakes grain headers tedders harrows threshers harvest threshers tillage implements hay loaders tractors hay presses hay stackers twine listers wagons, etc. These are made at plants in Chicago, Rock Falls, Canton (Ill.), Ft. Wayne, Richmond (Ind.), Akron, Springfield (Ohio), St. Paul (Minn.), Auburn (N. Y.) and Milwaukee (Wis.). Raw materials come from company-owned iron ore mines in Minnesota, coal...
...Clive returned to the Copley stage Wednesday night in Ian Hay's new play, "False Pretences", but there were no false pretences in the tumultuous applause that greeted the returned wanderer and also, as a matter of fact, the hitherto unproduced comedy...
...Hay's new piece contained one part perfectly suited for Mr. Clive; and it was well for the Copley company that their leader rejoined them. As a farcical butler, as a tramp, as an idiotic young man, Mr. Clive has in other years drawn tears of laughter from his audience: but as the old man in "False Pretences", the sniffs and nose-blowings which he caused were of a different character. The pathetic old man was a sentimental character in a very sentimental play; but Mr. Clive did not quite overact, the rest of the company was not over-sentimental...
Nicolay and Hay's Lincoln states that Robert spent the evening at the White House gossiping with Major Hay. The party at Ford's included Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln, Miss Harris and Major John R. Rathbone, daughter and stepson of Senator Ira Harris of New York...