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...charmed to argue over details, pleased when a costumer asks advice about a button on the hero's coat. With his actors ? whom he has usually selected long before he casts them ? he expostulates one by one, a day for each, until they share to the last shade his reading of their parts. When the picture starts, he almost never changes anything...
...historic tree on Garden Street fell to the ground on October 26, 1923. "There is no proof," says Jack, "That Washington either assumed command of the 'American Army' under the shade of this tree, or that he noticed it or cared for it; and there is certainly very much doubt with regard to the authenticity of the origin of some of the offerings made by professional nurserymen...
...with blood from broken blisters. Clarence De Mar, spindle-shanked Boston printer, won the race. Ray, informed that he could never run again, slicked his hair, said he would run within a month and "positively win." A month later ? in a race which Ray re members with a shade less satisfaction than the first ? he beat De Mar in a marathon at Long Beach, L. I. Last week, having gained ten pounds in the marathon dance, he announced his intention of enter ing the Quebec to Montreal snowshoe race, in which, last year, his face was frozen...
Foreign exchange traders last week looked at schedules of sailings from France to the U. S., took sharpened pencils and calculated to a nicety the point at which it would be profitable to ship gold to the U. S. The result was a figure a shade under 3.91?. Last week the franc was selling 1/16 above that figure, having fallen sharply from its recent high...
...shade of Voltaire, who once marvelled that priests could meet without laughing, must be greatly pleased by Mr. Wright's letter in Wednesday's CRIMSON: now even this last miracle has passed. But why should Mr. Wright resent the merriment of the clorgy at "this or that doctrine or sentiment dear to the Christian mind?" Surely everything has its humorous aspect, and if the theological structures of nineteen centuries can crumble at a smile, then the sooner we smile the better...