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Secretary of the Treasury Mellon announced last week that he had come to an agreement with Antonious Piip. Mr. Piip is Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the Republic of Esthonia. They agreed on the terms of repayment of Esthonia's debt of $13,831,441.88 to the U. S. Esthonia is to pay $1,441.88 at once and will repay the rest over 62 years with interest...
Houses of Sand borrowed all it could from Madame Butterfly, including soft off-stage harmonies, and failed to repay the loan. It added certain novelties from which the edge was worn by unreality. The twist awards the Japanese heroine to the American hero (unknown to him, his mother was a Jap girl). Before this sweet solution can release the audience, there are six scenes in and about Manhattan, beginning with the meeting of the chief participants at a Far East bazaar in Forest Hills. The performers were generally apt but the play is apt to end presently in the storehouse...
...they migrate to South America on the trail of prehistorics. Out come the brontosauri and Bull Montana as an ape man; the fun starts. Later, one of the beasts runs loose in the streets of Liverpool. Just how it is all done, only the camera man knows. It will repay inspection. The Great Divide, you will recall, was one of the first men-are-men dramas and created exceptional excitement in its day under the interpretative treatment of Henry Miller. Currently, it only goes to prove that the world does move and that almost any plot can be boiled...
...Morgan loan was implicated in a convention between the Government and the Bank of France to repay the latter by regular annual installments. According to a convention signed in 1920, the amount was fixed at 2,000,000,000 francs ($100,000,000), but repayment of this figure proved impossible. Finance Minister elemental proposed to repay only 1,200,000,000 a year and this proposal was satisfactory to the Bank...
...technical structure of poetry is not so readily grasped as the technical structure of prose. Or, again, it may be that poetry is more a question of inspiration than of assiduity. None of the poetry seems to have the power to stir the reader tremendously, yet it will all repay his reading...