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...waiting on the second floor for dinner to be announced when he saw a shadowy form at the window, heard footsteps on the porch roof. Cricket, his Scotch terrier, jumped up, growled a warning. Secretary Stimson threw open the window, rushed downstairs, outdoors, saw somebody sliding down a porch pillar, running away into the night...
...Reno is known as "graduation day" because on that day divorces are handed. Some women pay an extra $2 to have their decrees certified and tied up with an official ribbon. Only mythical is the tradition that a divorced woman on leaving the Washoe County courthouse gratefully kisses a pillar of its colonnade. Monday night the Reno station is crowded with happy ladies catching the Union Pacific's Limited east to Chicago and a new freedom...
...Geoffrey Platt of New York City, stated that the new building will be ready by June 1, and that it will be located where Herrick Hall now stands, on a bluff across the railroad tracks northeast of the old Freshman quarters. A two-story frame house on a pillar foundation, it will contain individual bedrooms and a lounge room on the lower floor...
...Parsee lets his sacred flame die out, he is exceedingly upset, for the Parsee's flame is the Parsee's religion. Last week a great U.S. industry, in which Fire is a vital pillar of the structure of Profit, was horrified by the suggestion that it neglect its flames once a week...
Ever a staunch pillar of the Grand Old Party, Taft as President tempered with perhaps too much caution the flery reform policy of Roosevelt, his friend and predecessor. Nevertheless, the qualities that he lacked as a leader were more than amply balanced by his devotion to public welfare outside of personal reward and his firm interpretation of the National Constitution. Rhetoric beats a shallow drum before the figure of a man whose effort was not stinted with egoism, whose diseeraing eyes were not slow to kindle with humanity. As a man who played many integral parts against the shifting background...