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...thought of selling things for five and ten cents-all these paid for themselves in advertising value. For later imitations in prairie cities like Chicago and Detroit there was no equivalent economic excuse. In proving themselves to be cities these places were borrowing traffic evils headlong. Transportation experts, and Editor Charles Harris Whitaker of the Journal of the American Institute of Architects, predicted that to cope with the present madness, new madness would be required, such as double-deck streets...
Born 42 years ago of a Rumanian peasant woman and a Creel smuggler, Panaït Istrati is an unhappy, passionate son of the Balkans with a talent for headlong talespinning that must have come to him from across the Bosporus. He writes out of the life he has led, chiefly here around one Stavro sly peddler of drink at fairs, upon whose sensitive nature, to the point of perversion, have been wreaked the brutal inheritance of an ancient jumble of hot, primitive races Stavro relates the tragedy of his marriage, thwarted by impotence; the kidnaping of his madcap sister...
...already broken, twisted, blasted, Miami was rewrecked. The waters of rivers were forced back to an unprecedentedly low level, then urged headlong overwhelmingly forward to founder grounded vessels. Fort Lauderdale, Pompano,* Hialea, Dania, Homestead, Coral Gables, Hallandale, Floranada, Ojus-all were devastated...
...crusty young gazetteer from Lahore, just beginning to capture a world-wide audience of greater enthusiasm than discrimination. And when a successor to harmless old Alfred Austin was needed in 1913, Poet Kipling was already an anachronism. Moreover, the one sorry "bloomer" that Laureate Austin had committed-a headlong paean to celebrate the Jameson Raid in South Africa (1896)-was directly traceable to the Kipling virus...
Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, "War Lord of Central China," rumored ally of Chang Hsueh-liang in capturing Peking, did not enter the city last week. The original garrison, adherent to the "Christian" Super -Tuchun, Feng Yu-hsiang, continued in headlong flight to Kalgan, hotly pursued...