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...noisy "Funeralizing of Crickneck" is broad comedy which might have any superstitious community for setting, but "Napoleon Crossing the Rockies" is unique. A railroad representative tries to bully two old folks to sell their property. Steadfast as the Napoleon of their ditty they refuse this stranger's heap of gold, but sell to a suave acquaintance who gives the old woman a chain of gaudy beads, and the old man new strings for his fiddle...
...money is diverted to speculation, too little to the economic needs of the U. S. Councils of war followed. Bankers considered increasing the charge made for placing the loans, fixing a minimum amount to be lent. Corporations countered by throwing an additional $36,913,000 on the call loan heap. Cried Charles Edwin Mitchell, president of the National City Bank: "It is a dangerous and unhealthy trend." Said able Vice President Francis Hinckley Sisson of the Guaranty Trust Co: "This is one of the by-products of prosperity with which we have not learned to dal." Warned the wise Cleveland...
...best sellers were mightily of a twitter, last week, at news of new exploits by the author of Revolt in the Desert, famed Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence. He, with a modesty not inferior to Lindbergh's, has rejected all the honors and decorations which Britons sought to heap upon him in reward for his success in fomenting an Arabian revolt against Turkey during the War. Last week, after eight years of self-imposed nonentity as a British private, T. E. Lawrence returned to Arabia as a British plenipotentiary and arrived at San'a, the Capital of the Imamate...
Soon Minister of Communications General John Metaxas hurried out to the quake area from Athens. Said he, after surveying Corinth: "Nothing but a heap of ruins remains. No house can be repaired, and structures which still threaten to fall must be pulled down. The material damage amounts to at least 620,000,000 drachmas ($8,000,000)." Fortunately the loss of life was slight, since the population of .Corinth, terrified by preliminary tremors, took refuge in the open before the major quakes began...
...what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' " Mr. Dodgson told them how Alice had followed the white rabbit down a hole in the ground and how she had fallen for a long way until she landed on a heap of sticks and dry leaves, how she had foolishly eaten a cake that said...