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...will be his accomplishments by which America will remember, him. The First National Bank, as near a one-man enterprise as it is possible for a $400,000,000 corporation to be, will stand as a monument to his fame as long as there is a shred of capitalism and conservatism in the land. It was Mr. Baker's job to build up this prince of commercial banks; it is the task of his less imaginative and more conservative successors to maintain it. Outside of the First National, Mr. Baker's chief interests were in America's two greatest pioneer...
Violet ray treatment became a part of the toasting process some months ago, is now advertised for the first time. It consists of tumbling the tobacco in rotating drums at a rate which, according to the American Tobacco Co., gives each shred a three-second exposure to two arcs. No extravagant claims are set up for it, but unofficially it is said the process "may in general be interpreted as tending toward an indication of mildness...
...whose diploma, testifying that he had received the degree of A.B., had been eaten by rats in Wadsworth House. He petitioned for another diploma in its place. As I knew that the President's objection to duplicating a diploma was almost Draconian in its rigidity, I had scarcely a shred of hope for Mr. Barton; but I did write to Mr. Eliot, then at Mount Desert, suggesting that, since Wadsworth House was a College building, the rats might be regarded as our own rats, for whose conduct toward Mr. Barton the College was responsible. I have rarely been more surprised...
...every morning she drove down town, left the car in a hired parking space, and walked to a department store, taking note of her reflection in all the plate glass show windows on the way. In the store she might spend an hour pricing things and perhaps matching a shred of silk, buying a pair of stockings, a small vial of perfume or a box of scented powder. Then she would hurry to keep an engagement to lunch indigestibly with Stella Greeley at a confectioner...
Christians err, announced Pastor Holmes, when they speak of the Resurrection: "There is not the slightest shred of evidence that Jesus ever rose from the dead." Christians are all wrong because they don't understand the really great things Jesus did, such as wage war on Church and State. Christians are misguided, too, when they apotheosize the carpenter who loved the title...