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...exactly 9.17 o'clock last night when Charles Apted, caretaker of University buildings, heard watchman Herman's whistle. Mr. Apted had been on his sun porch listening to the radio but immediately seized his coat and followed the fire engines. It turned out that some of the scaffolding in Eliot House, of which Professor Merriman is to be master, had caught on fire. There are 971 rooms in the new building, and students attracted by the blaze bothered firemen and the police by peering from the windows into the courtyard. They were admonished to throw no bricks. No bricks were...
...overheard remark as a basis for a drawing, but he has made himself the High Priest of the school by now. ... To see one of Peter Arno's illustrations of a one-line observation made by a dowager in a theater lobby or a young man in a porch hammock is to realize that, so long as people go on saying incongruous or pompous things, this young man will never lack for oysters, for the world is his." The Arno type of humorous drawing is hard to define, easy to recognize. The pictures that make you laugh are ludicrous...
...Report by the Wilmington, Del. Chamber of Commerce that during the first month of a campaign urging people to find and go ahead with construction jobs, such as getting the porch fixed, putting in a new bathroom, paving the driveway, it had succeeded in locating 450 jobs big enough to require building permits...
...Woodley," his Washington home, Statesman Stimson was 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...
...Luton, England (where most English straw hats are made), Rev. J. W. Woodhouse set about to raise $5,000 for the building fund of new St. Andrew's Church, which sum would meet the condition of a promise of $25,000. His method: sitting in the porch of the old church until, after three days, parishioners brought him the money...