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...popular biplane type to the monoplane. But the U. S. government has continued satisfied with the proven fighting performance of its Vought Corsairs, Curtiss Hawks and Falcons, Boeing Navy F4-B's and Army P12's, all biplanes. Last week Boeing Airplane Co., supplanting Curtiss as chief purveyor of single-seater fighters to the government, announced its latest experimental handiwork: a high-wing, cantilever, all-metal, parasol type of fighting monoplane. Experts in touch with Air Corps destinies foresaw in this announcement the ascension of monoplanes, the supplanting of biplanes, in the U. S. air forces...
...with issuing tickets for a policy game. The court interpreter was asked to read one of these. Read he: "The dragon will walk the eternal paths of glory and the lion shall be exercised. Would that our ancestors bring on us only fair skies with shining suns." Ong You, purveyor of Chinese New Year's cards, was discharged...
...report contained even the suggestion of a measure to make the purchaser of liquors equally culpable with the purveyor, the argument would have been raised from its present obscurity of details to a firm basis of fundamentals. If public opinion should support such an enactment despite its flavor of tyranny, it would show itself definitely committed to Prohibition at any cost, but if it is rejected, a drastic revision of the law itself is the only logical recourse...
...Manhattan's Hippodrome was famed for monster, lustrous theatricals. Visitors swarmed to see such sights as Bandman Sousa, Skater Charlotte, Diver Annette Kellerman, Buffoon Nat Willis and whole menageries of animals in congress on one huge stage. Behind the scenes was Showman R. H. Burnside, purveyor of size rather than taste...
...Osborn of the Evening World was low man. He saw 86 plays during the past season, guessed right only four times more than he guessed wrong, expressed no opinion twelve times, scored .453. Just above him was large Percy Hammond of the Herald Tribune, purveyor of false pomp and true drollery, who scored .616. Walter Winchell, Broadway slangman and gossiper, until last week of the tabloid Graphic (see p. 18) scored .790. He was just below dignified, grammatical J. Brooks Atkinson of the Times (.798) who, in turn, ran second to the winner, baldish, bespectacled Robert Littell of the Evening...