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...persons and places. When he returns home he writes editorials for his paper, ambitious in conception, abounding in hope and prophecy, eloquent in a style not unlike that of grandiose Publisher Hearst (whom he despises). To his friends in the wide world for which he has made Vancouver his lookout station he often mails copies of his writings- urging monetization of silver for a great new trade with the East; calling for magnanimous U. S. reduction of War Debts...
...Committee heard the remainder of Deal's story: how he swam to a floating gas tank to which three other men were clinging; how they struggled to keep the open spout of the tank above water; how all hands shouted in unison to attract the lookout aboard the tanker Phoebus; how Machinist's Mate Rutan weakened and slipped into the sea and Radioman Copeland held on only to die later, while Deal and Metalsmith Moody S. Erwin were rescued. The Committee heard; but their minds dwelt on those snapping girders-an indication that the mighty Akron had buckled...
...subjects I paint is sex appeal. . . . I see it in an abandoned posture of the body, in lips that are relaxed and never tense and in hair that is informally arranged. . . . I wish I could see some New York men glamorous enough. . . . I am on the lookout for them all the time but every time I come to New York it seems to me that the male population looks less picturesque. I think of New York mainly as a good place to lose weight...
...Whittier's 287 inhabitants knew him by sight. He was affable and talkative, gave his name as Reynolds Rogers. He bought a pair of blue overalls, put on an old sweater and cap, cut himself a tall staff and began taking walks in the hills. He built a lookout in a tree on a knoll, a rude altar on another hillside. People living in the same boarding house with him understood he was prospecting for gold, came from "up Kentucky way." Reynolds Rogers attended the County Republican convention, made speeches in which he said he was an intimate...
...Still in Athens, last week Samuel Insull, fugitive from justice, gave up cigarets for cigars, swore off coffee. He told the police that he had heard of a kidnap plot being hatched against him in Chicago. Thereafter a carload of fat Athenian police on the lookout for "Chicago gangsters" trailed him. And always close behind him walked swart, stout Peter Vanech of Stamford, Conn., swinging a big stick, scowling ferociously. Wary of Greeks bearing gifts, Samuel Insull shook himself free of a crowd of hangers-on, hired an interpreter. He made numerous visits to the office of American Express...