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...Angel Pavement is a dock-tailed street shuffled in somewhere in E. C. 1 or E. C. 2, and one of the forgotten firms upon it is Twigg & Dersingham, Veneers and Inlays. Upon this languishing business bursts James Golspie, breezy and bumptious, fresh from the Baltic with the sole agency for foreign inlays and veneers procurable at a fabulous economy. In a day affairs are metamorphosed. Impressionable young Dersingham (Twigg is dead) makes a vague sort of manager out of Golspie, who scorns a partnership. Prosperity descends upon the stuffy office. Everyone is cheered, and if Smeeth, withered cashier, Lilian...
...coatless, holiday-bent people. It was the day of the International Championship Standing Broad Jump for Frogs. As the impatient crowd elbowed to get nearer the street an official of the town's greatest sporting event pushed his way through, drew a chalk-line on the pavement, placed the first contestant...
...with no visible income beyond his $40-a-week salary as head of the vice squad, Patrolman Garrett used to maintain a blooded-stock farm, a racing stable, a Cadillac, a Marmon, a Chrysler, a wardrobe of $150 tailored suits. Suddenly, last August, Patrolman Garrett was reduced to a pavement beat. Said Writer Liggett: "It is the belief of Boston newspaper reporters that Garrett was 'bagman' for certain higher-ups who finally got rid of him because they were not satisfied with their percentage of the split." Patrolman Garrett refused to patrol, asked a vacation, got it. Returning...
...state motorway, 200 ft. wide, from Milwaukee, around the outskirts of Chicago, Hammond and Gary to the Michigan line. Of the 185 miles of right-of-way necessary for this toll road, 150 have been donated or leased. Last year plans were announced for a 25-mile elevated pavement for express motor travel over Grand Trunk R. R. tracks between Detroit and Pontiac, Mich. (TIME, Sept...
...private domain with six bottles of gin (TIME, Nov. 11). Two hours later the same agents closed in upon William David Goldberg as he was slipping through a back door to the same building with a bundle. "Goldie," as his clients call him, dashed his package to the pavement, smashing its bottles. The agents scooped up a gill of gin as evidence, lugged the legger to the lockup...