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Packed was the Opera House; high were the piles of green and yellow paper in the boxoffice. But clerks surveyed these piles with mingled feelings, remembering that in Chicago is a large ledger with records that the expenditures of the Chicago Opera were, this year, about $400,000 less than...
Ulrika piles up a fortune on commissions out of the general flood of money, after she has thoroughly demoralized the children?the only son develops into a degenerate?and brought the rest of her own family and friends to feed at the trough. Only one daughter, Josephine Mylius, withstands the...
The muses have stubbornly refused to inspire any of the Yale undergraduates with a college hymn worthy of replacing the present ancient but discredited song "Bright College Years". From the piles of manuscripts of words and music handed in last spring by members of the Yale student body in competition...
The flames rose highest in the southern part of the plant, where they ate their way into the heart of a large storage lumber yard. Some of the 12-foot piles were soaked with paint and varnish, so that firemen were still hosing the embers at 2 o'clock.
4) The Chemical Warfare Service is giving serious attention to the problem of developing a gas to destroy the worm which preys on golf greens and fairways, raising little piles of dirt. The gas must hang low and kill the worm without injuring the vegetation. The Service has already developed...