Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chatting over a cocktail His Majesty envisioned himself "working away in some big American automobile factory . . . like the Tsar Peter . . . who traveled incognito all over Europe and who did not shirk from taking a job in Dutch and English shipyards to get acquainted with the latest developments...
...crew learned without particular interest that their ship had changed owners. Not the Hamburg Kauffahrtei Gesellschaft, to which they had belonged for so many years, but a firm known as Felix Prenzlau & Co. would pay their wages in future. In the freight trade one Captain is much like another. They were not excited when their new master, one Capt. Tipplitt, came aboard. But Capt. Tipplitt turned out to be different...
People who like to read palms (or have theirs read), who read characters from handwriting and buy books on personality, were glad to hear last week of a new technique of character analysis. Prof. William H. Blake, instructor in educational dramatics at Columbia University, declared: "A person's salient characteristics can be distinguished from the way he holds himself, from the way he distributes his weight, and the way he uses his arms and legs...
...four scenes were designed by young Juan G. Novelo. In the first scene, Tuluum is not the fortress-like ruin of that name on the Caribbean Sea but is revived with terraces, temples, palaces, facing inland against a background of green sea, blue sky. In the last scene, Chichen-Itza rears its pyramids from the dust of ages...
...architect, like its architecture, was Italian: Adamo Boari. Other Latins and one Hungarian did some sculpture. A feature is the Tiffany glass screen-a glass mosaic fireproof curtain weighing 27 tons, academically decorated to illustrate the legend of volcanoes Ixtaccihuatl and Popocatepetl, Aztec lovers. When the theatre's site was excavated, workmen uncovered the steeple of a church which had sunk in the swampy ground. For months giant pumps injected concrete under the foundation, uselessly. The dome is unfinished but the structure has a roof. It is used for automobile shows, concerts. To raise more money the government once...