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...Blue Bird's is-ft. bonnet, he gathered speed going south along the beach. Nearing the grandstand at the start of the mile, the sound of Bine Bird's motor was first a low undertone to the warm purr of the surf, then a thundering roar, then a mighty shout of speed and wind as the car blurred past...
Queer places, queer people cross their path. There is the waggoner who told of a man with an old and ugly wife. When he discovered another man with her he did not shoot, or even shout. "He only said that he was bound by law to sleep with her, but why the other man was doing it he really could not understand." Then there is Yirgil Cristea, a baker whose reputation as a solid, sober citizen makes him a little sad. To divert his melancholy Author Baerlein persuades him to don a horsetail for a beard, pretend...
...instant has the Mahatma Eilshemius ceased to shout his scorn of every other painter in the world, his disdain of every art gallery that does not recognize the importance of his work. But he stopped painting in 1920. A few have suspected that he realized then that his pictures of Samoa, his ruins by moonlight, his strange nude ladies bathing in improbable streams were as far as he could go. Last week he grew suddenly frank with his press agent. "I won't paint again," said Louis Eilshemius, "I'm just a comedian...
...society and Wall Street, who gives an impression of careful, methodical methods, you may distrust the attitudes of Mr. Giannini. If you like "A. P.," a big blustery fellow who does not give a hang how his clothes hang, who has known manual labor, who gives a jovial shout when he sees you coming down the hall, you may distrust the more rigid banking technique of Chairman Walker. It is easy to see why a large group of stockholders who know little about finance and who have lost money, regard the conflict as "The People v. Wall Street...
...Akron should some day wrench apart like the Shenandoah, pound to earth like the R-IOI, crash like the Roma or vanish in a sea storm like the Dixmude, two menE. C. McDonald, a construction supervisor and W. B. Underwood, mechanic-were in a position last week to shout to the country: "I told you so!" They had charged that the great dirigible was structurally deficient. The House Naval Affairs Committee was investigating. If any disaster ever befell the Akron, the public, right or wrong, would hark back distrustfully to last week's hearings...