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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infinitely more valuable artistic qualities had been coveted, it must have been the work of highly skilled international crooks, for disposition of Metropolitan art treasures is of even greater difficulty than their theft. A fortunate twist was given the case, when two frames were found in two lower East Side pawnshops, where they had been deposited in exchange for $75 each. The other four are still missing, as are, unfortunately, the portraits themselves...
...neat little farm and learn all your sincere words and tender affection. The same I have wished and love to see for other poor girls and their brothers happy with the mother and father as I dreamed for us-but it was not so and the nightmare of the lower classes has saddened very badly your father's soul. The men of this dying old society, they brutally pulled me away from the embrace of your brother and your poor mother. But, in spite of all, the free spirit of a father's faith still survives...
...citizens planning summer tours of Canada have observed that Ontario liquor prices are considerably lower than liquor prices in Quebec. Prices announced when Ontario became Wet (TIME, March 21) easily underbid prices in Quebec, and though Quebec has replied by issuing a new downward revision of its liquor tariffs, Ontario still claims the least expensive of Canadian thirsts. A comparative price list...
...enemy. Coast dwellers frown when the grey banks drift in and smother the buoys. At sea the slowed ships feel their way; the sirens mourn incessantly. Voices are lowered in a fog, which muffles them yet lower as though it shrouded something grave about to happen. Fog, several hours of it, gets on men's nerves. Two thousand miles of groping through fog might drive two men in an airplane-a land airplane over an ocean-close to distraction. So thought radio operators listening last week to the day-and- nightlong flashes of Ernest L. Smith, civilian pilot...
...given by the flyers was this: When the S. O. S. signals were sent, the plane was dropping due to poor fuel feed, which boded a shortage. Near the sea's surface, the clog in pump or fuel line cleared up under the increased atmospheric pressure of the lower altitude. But so close to the sea had they dropped that the radio aerial trailed in the waves, was torn...