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Before her last voyage she was overhauled in drydock at Brooklyn. A minor collision in the Erie basin as she left dry-dock did no more than scrape paint. After this she was examined by three U. S. Department of Commerce inspectors, who spent three days in their work and certified her "seaworthy and equipped according to law." During the inspection every lifeboat was tested; filled with men, lowered to the water and raised again...
...walks home alone"?but teases sailors out of gifts and dance tickets. Of one breezy gob she becomes enamoured and over her he starts a free-for-all fight. No peace-lover, his past record is against him when he is arrested. Unless he comes out of this scrape, he will be court-martialed...
...Albee believed he could ameliorate if not cure the Heath case of arthritis. Plan: To open up the knee and hip joints and scrape away the freak bone formation; to line the knee joints to prevent fraction with fat and connective tissue from the thighs; to replace the excised, but normal, bones and skin. That is what...
...easy enough as a rule to scrape acquaintance with a Pullman waiter. Dr. Frank Gonzales. President of the Armour Institute, quite often exchanged words with Archibald J. Motley who ran the buffet on the "Wolverine" between New York and Chicago. When he found out that Mr. Motley had a young son who liked to paint pictures, he sent for the son and looked at the paintings. This done, he offered to finance Archibald Motley Jr. through his first semester in the Chicago Art Institute...
...with William Butler Yeats of the "Gaelic Renaissance," Sage Russell, now lecturing throughout the U. S., commands respect for the following judgment: ". . . The first phase of great civilization is that of mastery of the plastic and material arts. America is now passing through this phase: witness her buildings that scrape the skies, rails thrown across a continent. Your next phase will be literature. I believe a gigantic literature...