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Golspie proves to be a not unmixed blessing. His roaring conceit disturbs the office and is incompatible with Dersingham's public-school rationale. When Golspie's handsome daughter Lena appears she shows also that conscience does not run in the family, for she amuses herself at the expense of the lowly but amorous Turgis. Unable to see the fun, one night Turgis nearly strangles her, to his own and the reader's great surprise. For that evening he wallows in the melancholy of a murderer, and afterwards in (hat of a jobless man. Solace comes to him, however...
...temptation of thus being reproduced he cries with Latin vehemence: "I would rather have a boy of mine [he is nine times a father] be a barber than a musician. Anybody?anybody?can go Bah! Bah! into a microphone?so! Artists today. . . ." Though Son Felix, 18, and Daughter Lena, 19, possess good singing voices, he will not let them think of musical careers, will not allow a piano in his home...
...friends of Stalin are W. A. Harriman & Co. who obtained a 22-year Russian manganese concession in 1925 but gave it up at a loss after three years, because the Soviet Government resorted to "petty abuses," imposed "impossible conditions." Today the Anglo-U. S. concessionaires of the Lena Gold Fields claim that they are being forced out by means equally "unfair...
Ladies' Endurance. Mile Lena Bernstein, 24, Russian emigree, took off from La Bourget airport on Thursday morning, descended Friday evening with a new ladies' endurance record of 35 hr. 46 min. 55 sec. sustained flight, surpassing by nearly ten hours the previous record (26 hr. 21 min. 32 sec. by Elinor Smith), falling 2 hr. 14 min. short of the men's record (last October; Vern Speich at Long Beach, Calif...
...Edenton, N. C., Aunt Lena Cox summoned the fire department. When the firemen arrived, she pointed to a conflagration in her stove, explained that she wanted company...