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...resigns his will to live. On his deathbed he consigns the lovers to each other. But the van Leydens have no such liberal ideas. Scandalized, outraged when they discover Julie's behavior, their confusion is twice confounded when she runs off to marry Alison. He has rubbed the lamp of his philosophy and like a lovely genie she must answer its peremptory call...
...enemy patrol, is taken, stripped, spat on, and crucified against a door. The Author. Authoress Radclyffe Hall's maiden poetic effort was dictated at the age of three. By 1915 she had published five volumes of verse. Novel-writing, suggested by Publisher William Heinemann, followed: The Unlit Lamp, The Forge, A Saturday Life, Adam's Breed, The Well of Loneliness. The last, sympathetically telling the story of a girl born sexually inverted, created a stir because of its literary merits, a scandal because of its theme. The scandal was not lessened by the fact that Authoress Hall wears...
Irving Langmuir, 51, General Electric associate director of research, Popular Science Monthly's, $10,000 prize; in general for his many researches on fundamental physical and chemical subjects, in particular for his inventions of hydrogen arc welding and the gas-filled incandescent lamp which saves the U. S., it is estimated, $1,000,000 per night on its $1,000,000,000 per year electric light bill...
Lighting "is as obsolete as it well can be. ... There is scarcely a lamp fixture in your house that is not designed as though it were made to hold a candle. We are going to take gas-filled tubes and arrange them all around our rooms in rows of three or four at the cornice level and regulate intensity by the number of tubes we turn...
...true eulogy of Washington is this mighty Nation. . . . What other great, purely human .institution, devised in the era of the stagecoach and the candle, has so marvelously grown and survived into this epoch of the steam engine, the airplane, the incandescent lamp, the wireless telephone and the battleship? . . . We should strive to identify the qualities in him that made our revolution a success and our Nation great. Those were the qualities that marked Washington out for immortality . . . Lexington . . . Concord . . . Bunker Hill . . . Valley Forge . . . Yorktown...