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...more architecture than a piano is music" was a model of a queer pearshaped house hung on a pole, exhibited in Manhattan for the first time last week. It was the latest development of Richard Buckminster Fuller's famed "dymaxion house" (from "dynamics" and "maximum service...
...Young Reynolds was known to have talked of suicide often. Then gossipy newshawks began to arrive from New York and spread stories about Libby Holman, darling of Broadway. It was learned that she was a Jewess, that her father had changed his name from Holzman. She had married a queer backward youth six years her junior out of pity, she said, more than love. Was she after his $15,000,000 share of the Reynolds estate? Manhattan tabloids playing up her stage life and loves got back to Winston-Salem, stirred old Southern prejudices. In this atmosphere of moral distrust...
Then Lucy turned up again-poor, deserted, with several children. Paul felt only sorry for her at first, but soon his old passion began to rack him. When Lucy's besotted husband tried to kill her, Paul threw him downstairs, broke his neck, landed himself in a queer, unsaintly pickle. His straightforwardness and Lucy's testimony got him safely through the trial. Death soon removed the temptation of Lucy from him. Ripening but not repining, Paul seemed to those around him a strong and saintly character, though he knew himself still a struggling beginner at his endless...
Frimbo, the conjure-man, was a queer one. He lived next to an undertaker and died, apparently, from having a handkerchief stuffed down his throat. It would have been impossible for a normal person to find out who killed him, but not for Dr. Archer, a colored physician almost as erudite as Frimbo himself. Dr. Archer's suggestions proved invaluable to Detective Dart who seated himself in Frimbo's parlor and proceeded to examine suspects: the undertaker; the undertaker's wife ; a Negro porter named Easley Jones; a dope fiend; a "numbers" runner; two light-hearted Negro bucks named Bubber...
...cabinetmaking, preaches, lives a strange philosophy-"Resist not evil!" Towards him Odin, in spite of his love for his mother and Karen-Anna, is irresistibly drawn. After a series of boyish escapades, capped by a miraculous escape from drowning, Odin leaves home to join his father. "It was queer to be walking like this all alone on a strange road. And he had felt the same when he was a little boy, sometimes: it was as though you couldn't believe in what you saw. It was just as grand for all that. And it was good...