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...father, a distinguished surgeon of Puritan spine, wanted him to join the Navy. But his mother was musical and did water colors. Besides, he was brought up traveling abroad, where talented young pencils itch in the art galleries. So John Singer Sargent* became a painter...
...Gossipy Sex. A Stamford (Conn.) audience advised Producer John Golden to take this play to Manhattan. It concerns a lisping tattletale in trousers, who so irks a houseful of guests that the Chief of Police himself yields to an itch to plug the stream of slander with a bullet. Unfortunately the shot misses. Actor Lynne Overman burlesqued his role of wag-tongue -which is about all that could be done with...
...Truth to tell, Washington has become the universal Mecca of human freaks. To that city protagonists of vagaries gravitate by all known routes, some by election, some by appointment, some by 'divine command.' The great majority, however, merely follow noses that itch for the business of others. There they bed and breed...
...that she is a girl apart. She's your daughter. Whose else." Her curly head is full of girlish sense and nonsense. Her toes itch to beat out the latest dance rhythm. She's alive to every urge of wholesome happy youth...
...Miller & Co. Inc. is that of many building investors throughout the country. A man has an itch to build. He borrows $100,000 at 7% interest and, because his credit is insecure, he pays a 10% bonus. For the sake of $90,000-which is paid out to him as he must compensate the building trades-he pays $17,000 in interest for the first year. This is practically 19% on the $90,000 he actually gets. The second year, and thereafter, he pays $7,000 interest on the $90,000, or 7.7%. Then, when his building is completed...