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...chatter. In addition he had scrambled together a list of famed musicians' food fancies. It read: "Toscanini. Kraftbruhe mit Ei (consomme with raw egg). . . . Iturbi, caviar on apples . . . Horowitz, Russian cutlets . . . Stokowski, raw vegetables . . . Hutcheson, mushrooms (he grows and eats them) . . . Cortot, bread and gravy . . . Brailowsky, lump sugar . . . Professor Erskine, raw beef . . . the Leners of the Lener Quartet, orange ice . . . Melchior, green apples . . . Gabrilovitch, sardine oil . . . Gershwin, cereal and milk . . . Schumann-Heink, onions . . . Jeritza, cabbage." Most, if not all of this list is verifiable fact...
...businessmen, lawyers, smart sporting people, animal fanciers. Its president is Frank K. Sturgis. Onetime president of the National Horse Show, onetime president of the Turf and Field Club, he succeeded August Belmont as Chairman of the U. S. Jockey Club. Unlike those old ladies who feed truck horses lump sugar from paper bags in their purses, he is no sentimentalist; unlike Henry Bergh, he is a cosmopolite without being a freak. Now 83, he still summers at Newport. His stern, mustachioed countenance has changed little since the days when, a member of Strong. Sturgis & Co., he was president...
...classes, commercial attaches and trade commissioners. At Washington their reports are assembled and presented in a periodical pamphlet called What the World Wants. There it may be found this week that Rosario, Argentina, will buy buggy wheels; that Nottingham, England, wants battery chargers; Lagos, Nigeria, needs canned fish and lump sugar. Other world wants noted in the latest bulletins: kitchen sinks at Bordeaux; machines to make banana flour at Lourengo Marquez. Portuguese East Africa; fertilizer grinders at Batavia; sneakers and sporting wear at Mukden; fountain pens at Calcutta; corsets at Berlin; oilcloth at Cairo...
...arts it requires less intensive study and knowledge to become an appreciative and intelligent listener of good music. And while a certain amount of affectation is admitted, it is not credible that a large percentage of undergraduates will be affected to the extent of paying out fifteen-dollar lump sums for appearing to be an appreciator of good music. There is no one urging the majority to buy records, to hear music, by telling them what "finer men" they may become if they listen to Beethoven's "Seventh" every evening. Certainly a judicial, unprejudiced individual would say that the interest...
Exclaimed Mr. Fokker: "My ship is not a lump of sugar. It won't melt in the rain." In flight the huge ship showed stability, maneuverability. Universal Air Lines ordered the plane and four replicas for its proposed day-&-night transcontinental service...