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...dignity of bankers for he boasts a full-fledged beard, while the dignified whiskers of C. W. Barron, dean of the American financial news field, are known in Europe and Asia as well as the United States and Canada. Another internationally known individual whose consumption of razor blades is nil is Arthur Curtiss James, capitalist and yachtsman...
...basketball contest with St. George's the Crimson first year quintet was forced to display its best. The game was an up-hill fight from the start and the Crimson chances for victory seemed nil until just before the final whistle, when the score stood...
Signer Mussolini announced last week that the new tax on Italian bachelors (TIME, Dec. 20) will vary directly with the individual's potential proliferousness, rising between the ages of 25 to 45 and then falling to nil...
...pencil. This may explain the appearance of so many neat columns of figures nestling in the pages of newspapers and other periodicals, but that is about as far as most of the explanations carry. The not result of all the compilations additions divisions and applications or most statistics is nil. However the labor of bringing the faces together keeps a great many people out of misdirect and most of it is good clean...
...open the Metropolitan's season in Philadelphia Nov. 2, with Maria Jeritza, a blonde, exuberant Tosca, to race the gauntlet of operatic emotions. Jealous first, then playful, loving completely Mario Cavaradossi, she brings him thus unwillingly into a political trap laid by Chief of Police Antonio Scotti, sleekest of nil Searpias, who wants the lady for himself. The second act will come with his melodramatic crescendoes. Tosca will surrender and Scarpia will supposedly draw up his pardon while Tosca's hand, fumbling, despairing, will find the carving knife on a supper table. She will stab him, steal away hugger-mugger...