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...always bigger on Saturday night?," a million understanding shopgirl hearts sigh with her. And when, temporarily exalted to a swank Manhattan penthouse, Joan looks over the parapet at the twinkling city, "piled up against the dark," many a less lyric lass wishes that she, too, might sometime be so pent...
Apparently the only substantial force that has occurred at Narragansett is the force exerted by the soldiers sent in by Governor Quinn. Apparently the only war in Rhode Island is the war of words between the pent-house and the State House. If there has been no more disorder and violence at this race-track than what Boston newspapers have reported, then the odds against the legality of the Governor's action are longer odds than these wagered on any horse that ever ran at Narragansett Park...
Even the horses are restricted; they can take a little exercise early in the morning, but must go back to bed at 10 a.m. Meanwhile vituperative challenges pass to and for between Mr. O'Hara in his pent-house on the roof of the grandstand and Governor Quinn under the marble done on one of Providence's Seven Hills...
...affair very nonchalantly when they are not in mass demonstrations. The Japanese very deservedly have the reputation of being exceptionally courteous to foreigners. This courtesy is still present under the war situation, although every now and then some overworked official drops the veil for an instant to loose his pent up emotions...
...Stringfellow and his fellow executives were troubled. The Edison battery functions because, when iron oxide and nickel hydrate (suitably packed in a battery box) are charged with electricity, a chemical reaction is set up which enables the battery to discharge itself in any vehicle or spot where its pent-up energy may be needed. The iron used in the batteries comes from Sweden because Swedish iron is unusually free from impurities, but traces of nickel were found however in a $40,000 shipment of Swedish iron which recently reached the Edison factory at West Orange. Dared the company take...