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...hotfoot on the missing husband's trail. He finds him ... a gold mine (the great lode of Mother Mountain!) is discovered . . . there is not enough water for two . . . another murder. In the sheriff's office at Red Butte, Pierre, given up for dead (no man could get through Skeleton Sink alive) stumbles in to confront the sheriff, Ann and old Tony. He dies with a nobly false self-accusation hissing through his parched lips...
Mass Vacation. Last week 75,000 employes of Western Electric Co. went on their vacations, an exodus of Biblical proportions. Skeleton crews will keep Western Electric's plants from falling apart, will handle emergency orders for electrical equipment...
...sand and mud and stood eight stories high. There is a palace equipped with a complete heating plant; in the tomb of a dancing girl buried 2,000 years ago are a vanity case, a variety of rouges, mirrors, jewels, phials of perfume; 7,000 vases contain the skeletons of children sacrificed to some forgotten god; in a golden tomb lies the skeleton of a dead white woman who was part queen and part divinity. As Count de Prorok's party cross the desert in specially equipped cars- they meet a contemporary Caucasian tribe whose beautiful women wear...
...dead tyrants. . . . The modern movement is a conscious effort to direct and canalize the stupendous energy of modern civilization between its proper architectural embankments. . . . Seizing the opportunity offered by the elimination of the requirement of gravitational stability with imagination and courage [the Modernist] has suspended about his skeleton framework a gossamer veil of glass and light building materials, and created a new style based on the old common law of architecture reformulated to meet modern needs in the light of modern economic and engineering genius...
...graves of Belleau Wood, and while Mussolini considers the beauty of machine guns, Aristide Briand has given European diplomats another opportunity to write their names on a piece of paper. Long featured in frayed journalese as the canny apostle of the Quai D'Orsay, Briand has dragged an ancient skeleton from the diplomatic closet placarded "Pan-Europe" and rattled its bones from the lake front of Geneva to the austere marble of the Hague...