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...Rooms can be warmed by "radiant" heating-a carefully placed system of hot air or hot-water pipes concealed behind walls, floors and ceilings. Result: almost no drafts, less dust trouble, more even temperature. In 1929 Washington's handsome red-brick British Embassy installed one of the first radiant systems in the U.S. On party nights guests discovered they could dance longer, with less fatigue...
Anti-Sectarian. In St. Louis, Andrew Thomas Stevenson sued for divorce, complaining that his wife refused to feed him any white bread, white sugar, or meat because it violated the Scientific Order of Spectro-Chrome Metrists' rules based on "solar, lunar, and terrestrial radiant gravitation influence...
...Known hitherto as a confirmed bachelor, studious Sir William last week surprised his friends by announcing his engagement to his Scottish sister-in-law, Mrs. Janet Mair, mother of four children and a grandmother to boot. Said she: "I am radiant." Said he:"My future wife is about my own age (63). She's a very charming person...
...Leave the sinking ship of Western civilization. It had reached its end: the Pacific. Beyond lies your friend: Japan, the lifeboat of racial love, made radiant by the star of the East, the Rising...
...those governments are strong which are based on the land and its people, not on factories and the people who own or work in them. Ben Robertson is a Scotch-Irishman from the red clay hills of South Carolina, a correspondent for New York's PM and a radiant devotee of the New Deal...