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Superintendent McAndrew reached the door. The voice of the board's president, J. Lewis Coath, reached him: "Will the superintendent please remain?" Superintendent McAndrew's short, broad-shouldered form passed the door jam. Mayor Thompson's figurative teeth gnashed. One of them broke from the denture. It was Walter J. Raymer, Chicago banker, theretofore docile member of the board. He cried...
Over the Hudson River, on the other side of Manhattan, there is no bridge. Ferries, lighters and under-river railroads carry the traffic. A few years ago there was an ice jam in the river and Manhattan lacked coal although there were heaps on the New Jersey side. That situation finally induced the two state legislatures to order the tunnel built. Their tunnel commissions chose Holland's plans and made him chief engineer. His wife last week told how he worked: "Evening after evening he remained at work. Our dinner hour was always uncertain. If we induced...
...aggressive progressive from North Dakota, told the President that he was wrong. He warned him that the contests over seating the Senators-elect, William S. Vare of Pennsylvania and Frank L. Smith of Illinois, were going to consume many valuable weeks of the Senate's time; that a jam of legislation would result...
smarty who proves to his married friends that any wife will lose faith in her husband after finding in his coat pocket a note signed "Love, Helen," or "Kisses, Eleanor." Then the bachelor almost gets into a jam with his own fiancee over these same transplanted notes. There are a few bright chips of dialog but they are hidden under a bushel of small talk. The playwright, Owen Davis, is credited with having written more than 100 plays...
Observers, cogitating the news from Bar-le-Duc last week, deemed the speech of Premier Poincaré as surely and sweetly blended as Confiture de Bar-le-Duc, famed immemorial jam, exported hugely from the town to mingle on crackers with the cheeses of the world...