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...that the export of rum never amounted to much, if any, more than 4% of the per annum exports of the Islands. ... I will leave it to you to explain how the loss of 4% of a region's annual exports can produce an economic wreck. . . . The very prosaic fact is that the manufacture of sugar constitutes the chief means of livelihood in these Islands and that the rum produced is and always has been a byproduct...
...Manhattan's socialite East Seventies. They were drawn there to the home of Mrs. William Bayard Cutting by the most dramatic Senatorial demise since the late Senator Walsh dropped dead two days before his elevation to the Cabinet. If Bronson Murray Cutting had died fortnight ago of prosaic disease in a prosaic bed, instead of meeting violent death in an airplane, his exit from the political stage would still have been dramatic. For like Mercutio he died an early death while the play was but half played...
...TIME, May 21). In these books Author Jameson is writing the personal history of her day. Though her version is never likely to be widely popular, her readers know by this time that she does not lie to them, however uncomfortably, even drearily, she sometimes talks. Her ambition is prosaic but candid: "There is only one book worth writing-not to cheat, but to record every item in the tale of mistakes, joys. cruelties, and simple meannesses that make up our dealings one with others, then to write down the total, hand it in. and clear off without making...
Wagner, the dramatist, was working at his desk when his death stroke came. Beethoven, the Titan, died shaking his fist at a thunderstorm. Brahms' end was more prosaic and not until lately was it described by his housekeeper, the only one who witnessed it (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933). He had cancer of the liver and he caught a fatal cold standing in the rain at Clara Schumann's grave. On his death bed he spoke little, because his false teeth kept slipping. His last words were "Ja, das ist schon." His reference was to some wine that...
...Teutonic nudes of yesteryear, who, thinly veiled in gauze, lie languorously across a wolf's skin (Wolff's Choice), or step daintily into a mountain brook (The Lone Queen), or sedately duel with rapiers in a grove (El Duelo). Today Consolidated makes its money from more prosaic designs for cigars like La Palina. La Palina was originated by Sam Paley, father of President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System. The inside of every La Palina box is adorned with a picture of Mrs. Sam Paley in a Spanish costume. Other big Consolidated customers: Bayuk Phillies...