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...months they had awaited last week's concerts. It seemed only meet that Toscanini should realize it but he accepted his thunderous ovation a little impatiently. He turned his dapper back as soon as he decently could, tapped smartly on a cellist's music-rack and began the business of the evening...
When Louisine Waldron Elder was a young girl, she liked pictures. Particularly did she like pictures by Edgar Degas of be draggled and rhythmic danseuses stretching their weary tendons upon the ballet rack, pirouetting with a one, two, three and a pas-de-bas to the tattoo of the master's baton. Louisine saved her pin money, watched it swell to $100, took her hoard to a friend, Mary Cassatt. Mary Cassatt took it to Degas, bought a pic ture, the first to enter an American collection. "I sadly needed that money," said Degas...
More than a rack of test-tubes ? a retort! Seething humanity smothered the Derby. Confetti and torn telephone books snowed. A placard and its prancing bearers proclaimed: "Remember November sixth ? beer!" The swarms of children grew prodigious. Cautioningly, anxiously now the Derby waved. One child run down would cost thousands of votes, perhaps millions. Yet swarming imps were every where, all yelling and grinning, a few tying to the Derby's car tin cans which other imps snatched off, pummeling the tin-cantiers...
...wealth. The Du Ponts will be on the right side whichever party wins. They are 'sitting pretty'; and it's worth to them all they pay for it. Business is a two car train. Salesman Smith is selling seats in his car, and advertises the added attraction of a rack for the hip flash on the side of the bench to obviate the necessity of having to stoop down to get it from under the bench; otherwise, business might as well ride in the Republican car. It doesn't make much difference anyway...
...privacy of the telephone is far greater than that involved in tampering with the mails. . . . Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the Government by means more effective than stretching upon the rack to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet...