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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Curtis voted in Topeka, Kan. Then he went and stood at the grave of his wife. She had died four years too soon. He learned of the landslide on awaking aboard a train near Chicago. From President Coolidge he received a quirky little message: "... I regret that the country will not also have your distinguished services as a Senator...
...Buffalo, there had been a day in France when, in the full regalia of Colonel, and flashing his automatic he had bellowed: "Come on! They can't hit me and they won't hit you. Let's go." The men he thus summoned at the battle near Landres and St. Georges, he had made iron by drilling them to fight each other naked to the waist and to run miles in bare feet. A poet, Joyce Kilmer, had followed him jubilantly unto death. "Hard boiled'' they called him and terribly "Wild...
...bound old family who are proud of family portraits, prouder still of family history or so much of it as has not been written in the past decade. Consuelo Poole (Rose Hobart) has a suppressed desire for a riveter who pumps bolts into the skeleton of a growing building near the Pooles' Manhattan home. One day, out of a steel-beamed sky, the riveter crashes through the Pooles' conservatory roof. Stunned by the fall, his astonishment is increased by the proximity of Consuelo. His way of expressing his daze is to say "Geez" many times (in throaty Theatre...
Revolt. Author Harry Wagstaff Gribble (who wrote also that near masterpiece. March Hares) announces his theme as though he had himself discovered it. That the children of a fundamentalist preacher should become annoyed at their father's limitations is neither surprising nor interesting. Eventually the clergyman blows his brains out in an improbable manner...
Obliquely interesting to the light physicists at Washington was the California Institute of Technology's decision to build a 200-inch telescope near Mount Wilson. The present Mount Wilson apparatus has a 100-inch reflecting mirror. The new one, to be done in three years, will double the astronomer's vision, quadruple the amount of light that at present can be caught from the stars. The great mirror, about 17 feet in diameter, is possible because Professor Elihu Thomson of the General Electric Co. has learned how to fuse quartz into great discs that will not crack...