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There was, however, no restraint on Noble Puffer. Rounding up his wife, his lawyers and a party of burly friends, he returned to the office. Picking up what records they could lug, the Aken forces retreated to an inner office, barricaded the door...
...girl from Atlanta is assigned a small bare room with enough furniture for comfort but not enough to distract her from the business at hand. Already manufacturers' salesmen have begun to arrive. They line the corridor outside the buyer's office. Some are empty handed; others lug heavy sample cases. Office boys dart in & out carrying their cards. The salesman's object is to wheedle the buyer into visiting his firm's showroom. Such an excursion will never take her outside the area bounded by Seventh Avenue, Madison Avenue, 30th Street and 42nd Street...
...said "If you'll excuse," handed the Pasha the key to the chest and swept off to bed. The Pasha wanted a cigaret but his lighter failed him. So he listened to a flute which was supposed to be a nightingale, then summoned a servant who helped him lug the suspicious box into the garden, there dig a grave...
Because she does not go in for backstage tantrums or lug around pet jaguars (see p. 32) Lotte Lehmann rarely makes the news columns. She does not advertise her diet which consists mostly of fruit and vegetables, a glass of sherry before she goes on stage. She keeps dogs and cats in her Vienna home but not in her dressing-room. To every performance she takes photographs of her father, mother, grandmother, brother, husband, kisses them all for luck...
Construction crews followed the timber cruisers. Mills were erected at Longview, Wash, on the Columbia River to secure water transportation to world markets. Railroads were built 30 mi. into the hills to lug down the logs. Plunked down in the wilderness, the entire city of Longview (pop. 10,500) was constructed for employes. Long-Bell became the world's largest lumber company. Then, two years after the Northwest operation was begun, said Founder Long, "the lumber business just dried up." Dividends were passed in the autumn of 1927, earnings shriveled and last spring Long-Bell failed to pay its bond...