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...Chicago convention voted against him for a second term. Comfortably full of Senator Arthur Capper's luncheon, the Vice President received the news on the north steps of the State capitol. That location was chosen for economy's sake, as no expensive awning was needed to shade the notifiers. With the Vice President were his sister, Mrs. Dolly Gann; his daughter, Mrs. Leona Knight; his rambunctious son Harry. On the lawn were 5,000 spectators. Nominee Curtis made a speech. It was broadcast over 48 stations but omitted from New York and Chicago...
...with the win- dow shut on account of his asthma, "in an attitude as inconvenient as possible: a bad pen, a half-empty bottle of ink. . . . He held his sheet of paper in the air and wrote without supporting it on anything at all. . . . He refused to have a shade fixed on the lamp that dazzled him." He became so completely absorbed in his writing that he once worked three days at a stretch. Once he sallied out to the Louvre to refresh his memory about a picture, did not realize until he got there that it was midnight. Proust...
...would be well for sleuths everywhere to model themselves on Detective Charlie Chan. Like all storybook operatives, he avoids catch-as-catch-can methods, has apparently never heard of the third degree. More than this, he exhibits an oriental courtesy that is only a shade less elaborate than his oriental proverbs. Sample: "Even a blind man, if he has been over the road before, may point out the way.'' This time Author Biggers. whose books make better cinemas than most murder stories, has Detective Chan present at a lugubrious houseparty. Present also are four ex-husbands of an egocentric diva...
...Schmeling had a cut lip. In the ninth round then the tenth and the eleventh, it looked as though Sharkey were tiring, as though Schmeling had planned his fight well and might even be able to win as he pleased in the last rounds. Instead, Schmeling came out a shade more cautiously in the twelfth and Sharkey's savage, feline left paw began to flick his face savagely again. fought. The last Schmeling four was rounds fresher in were the last round, the fastest of a sharp but not particularly dramatic match. When the bell ended...
...colors used are characteristic of the Augsburg work of the period, and are applied with much more care and skill than usual. The colors are laid in flat washes on some figures; on others there is an attempt to represent light and shade. Maidens and warriors alike have delicate pink complexions...