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...first time Philip and Mildred go out together, he gayly buys a bottle of champagne. When she leaves him for Emil Miller (Alan Hale) he follows them to a theatre, watches them drive off together in a taxi. When she comes back for the second time after a Paris jaunt with his fellow medical student (Reginald Denny), she moves into Philip's rooms. Audiences in Manhattan last week were sufficiently impressed to applaud when Philip finally finds Mildred horrible enough to say calmly: "You disgust me!" Enraged, Mildred screams abuse at Philip, ends with the most dreadful insult...
...that the tempo of historical phase increases in geometric ratio.He even ventured to prophesy that shortly after 1920 we should enter upon the "ethereal phase", approaching the ultimate end when generation would die and be born in the world of thought so rapidly so t be almost indistinguishable. A jaunt through this month's "Advocate" ,the might persuade the historian the the ethereal era had in fact arrived...
...Philadelphia socialite; and William Starling Burgess, 54, yacht & airplane designer, builder of Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's America's Cup defender Enterprise, co-designer of the Dymaxion car; in Reno, immediately after she divorced Edward M. Biddle, Philadelphia lawyer, on grounds of cruelty. Returning from a spectacular Alaskan jaunt some two years ago, Mrs. Biddle complained that her friends snubbed her, called her a "hellcat'' for leaving her husband and three small children. It was Mr. Burgess' fourth marriage...
...simple pleasure, and demanded and got more. One such man made a trip at government expense to Boston, and, according to Brown, brought back a large supply of "hair tonic for the boys." Boston was too petty for the imaginative Mr. Brown; he went off for a pleasant little jaunt to Paris on government funds and almost succeeded in bringing back a Turkish dancer. In between times he made trips to Washington to take liquor to his uncle, the late Mr. Doak, Secretary of Labor, "who had heart disease...
...game is now history, but for the benefit of those who are still in ignorance the score was 19-6. Three perfectly executed passes and one of the longest runs on record turned the trick. Locke's jaunt down the field on the kickoff will go down in the annals as one of the most thrilling exhibitions of football seen in the series. Outrushed by Yale from scrimmages 152 yards to 78, Harvard managed to keep the game on ice after the touchdown by Haley after three minutes of the first quarter had elapsed...