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...White Hall, Ill., afraid to put her money in a bank, Mary Booth, 70, made a crazy quilt out of $2,000 worth of bills, tried to exchange it for that amount in Washington...
...woman who compensated for the President's solemnity by her own sparkle, spontaneity, friendliness. While he was nasal in his office, she was melodious at the East Room piano. While he made a name by the negative means of vetoes and economies, she knitted the name into a quilt which will be at the White House when the Coolidge Era is ancient history. Her quilt, finished long before "I do not choose" was written, says...
...came off, an inverted bowl of bakelite. Exposed was a crazy-quilt of skin patches, splotched with blue and red and white, and pulsating. Norman Douglas' skull, rotting from a 5.000 h. p. electric shock two years ago,* had been removed piece by piece. For each piece his surgeons-Drs. R. E. Gaby and K. G. McKengie of Toronto-had grafted a piece of skin from his thighs to what remained of his scalp. Frailly covered thus was his brain...
...able Major Henri de Beaujolais. The sand of the desert, a by no means unimportant element, is seen to fine effect, either snapping its angry yellow veil in the windy darkness, puffing smokily into the air after an explosion, or merely lying still under the sun like a quilt of shining yellow snow...