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...being one of the first men to reach that region. He is a great traveler and pathfinder. One of our best guides in the Yoho is a Yale man. College men are not tenderfoots at all. More of them, however, should learn the glory of a gun, a fishing rod, a horse, and the famous Kickinghorse Trail from Banff Valley to the Yoho...
...Significance. You can, if you like, read Earl Tinker as Pen rod grown up. Laurence Ogle might be Willie Baxter, twice Seventeen. Or you can regard The Plutocrat as simply a new Tarkington vehicle full of up-to-date types, sent out parading to show people how they look. The balloon tires of burlesque protect anyone it runs over from being injured. Mme. Momoro is the chauffeuse, adroit aloof, intelligent, guiding the satire until it is time for her to step out of it a human being like the rest. Mr. Tarkington has written books of more uniform merit...
Late that evening, the Cincinnati found the missing plane, a con necting rod (between crankshaft and cylinder) broken by excessive strain due to oil pressure. Lieutenant Connell and his mates had not had to fall back on their stills (for drinking water) and fishlines-equipment the Hawaiian flight last year proved it advisable to carry...
...Franklin", says Balzae, "invented the lightning rod, the hoax, and the republic". Yet in all fairness it must be admitted that he did more. In fact, not only did he show himself a statesman during his stay at the French Court as well as in his political work at home, but also he was perhaps the foremost writer of America at the time, as well as something of an inventor and man of science...
...Gigolo (Rod La Rocque). Edna Ferber wrote the story: a Western boy loses his fortune in Pa: shoots down enemy planes, sinks to the level of dancing boy lonesome old ladies, is stung back to respectability by his sweetheart's caustic rebuke, returns to the ironworks tradition of the pioneer Gorys, emerges on top after all. In spite of amateurish photograhy jumbled scenario, the audience found several good moments...