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Lost in the maze of buildings which lie between the historic Yard and the tortuous Charles, its gold tower dwarfed by the belling pinnacle of Lowell House, is Adams House, unit of the House Plan which combines the relies of the Gold Coast age with the latest products of the fertile minds of those masters, Messrs. Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch & Abbott, to form an architectural jumble, but at the same time a bizarre and altogether pleasing entirety. For though Westmorly and Randolph are separated by an intervening unit containing the Dining Hall, Common Rooms, Library, and C entry, the whole...
...could at least study the scriptures, and Maurice, aged thirteen, was consigned to the ecclesiastical limbo. Twenty years later he wore the Miter of Autun. Thence for sixty odd years the imperturbable Talleyrand stood at the right elbow of every government that held sway in Paris. Through the maze of diplomacy and intrigue he walked, smiling ironically, drinking deeply and often of the champagne of life. M. Bernard de Lacombe has seen fit to describe him as the "chess player," calmly watching the whole turmoil of unrestrained human ambitions, toying in his delicate fingers the reins of Kingdom, Republic...
...fantastically. Shrewd businessmen who were directors of his London & Globe Co. believed in his infallibility as unquestioningly as did the associates of the late Ivar Kreuger and Samuel Insull. In 1903 London & Globe Co. crashed. Whitaker Wright was charged with issuing false balance sheets. So complicated was the financial maze he had built that no lawyer in England wanted the case. Rufus Isaacs agreed to prosecute it. For days he stood in Old Bailey, his eyes sharp and penetrating beneath a pushed back wig, suavely questioning, blandly dissecting the answers he received. Swindler Wright grew pale as he realized that...
...underlying principles of the occurrence. What rules to govern the vessels of the seven seas? How determine the rights of yonder tramp steamer standing out to the Shoals? The bookcase resumed its original form again to answer these questions, and the Vagabond stared on, until from a maze of crimson jackets and calfskin bindings the words came out--Mare Liberum, Grotius...
...Cover," the uninitiated is led to expect Prussian organization, Dutch neatness on its pages. But the booklet, like many others things of New England, is deceptive in its simplicity; it may be likened to a New Hampshire barn, prim, spick and span to the eye, but filled with a maze, a jungle, of mingled odds and ends, in which the stranger can find what he wants only by explorative rummaging...