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This same phrase came leaping back, clear as a Tiffany diamond, to the old fellow when he dropped into a Holworthy room the other day. There on the mantel deep in the white panelling were the hieroglyphics of a multitude. There was a G. M. '00, and O. G. '91. There were full names and first names, surnames and nicknames all carefully wrought and delicately traced. Only one was left unfinished, as if perchance the carver had been called away to Boston, and upon his return had forgotten his work so carefully begun. There is lay a precious fragment like...
...prepares to leave the house, as if he feared the lightning were about to strike it. Unknown to the siren, Tom Collier is about to leave, too. Months before he had said: "Any good man who leaves his work for the world, leaves it for a whore." On the mantel he places a check. Then he claps his hat on his head, stalks toward the door. "I am going back to my wife," decides Tom, meaning, as is by this time clear, Daisy...
...summary: HARVARD BROWN Pattison, Laud, r.f. l.g., Schein, Mantel Farrell, l.w. r.g., Hemelright Raul, c. c., Sawyer, Skinner Moushegian, r.g. l.f., Caulkins, Harris Huppuch, l.g. r.f., Snyder...
...Pope's world-salute (see p. 40). The 31st President of the U. S. reveres the 16th above all others. The Hoover eulogy was broadcast from the Lincoln study in the White House, amid Lincoln chairs, pictures, tables, plaques. A Lincoln clock, six minutes late, chimed from the mantel...
...tells of being summoned to the H Street house early one morning after a wild party at which a girl had been seriously injured by a crack on the head from a bottle. "I saw," writes Means, "President Harding leaning against the mantel. He looked bewildered." Means carried the unconscious girl to a hospital, where, the inference is, she died. This affair, says Means, led him to knowledge of what Jess Smith called "the President's philandering gaieties"?and the name of Nan Britton, a Marion, Ohio, girl, 30 years Harding's junior...