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...marry off three sisters in six months. Everything seems happily managed, when lo! into the third act comes an utterly unheralded complication-and Henry goes to the district attorney's office. It is gradually divulged that Henry, to adorn his sisters with a marital background, had bartered skim milk instead of cream. For no good reason he is released and the entire cast pairs off and marries, which is theatre for a happy ending. Al Roberts as a comedian gets no laughs...
...comparative importance of the objects in an art collection ? Your "famed" and Baedecker's asterisks are simply highly condensed symbols for indicating relationships which could not be otherwise indicated without many wasted words. Those readers who know without being told the relative importance of everything, may surely skim over the asterisk or the "famed" with less pique to their vanity than if a longer expression were used. Those who lack the omniscience just referred to (and I am one) should applaud TIME for having created this concise and effective symbol, which is not to my knowledge used in this...
...moon will sweep over the East?brings in Minnesota at sunrise, thence moving southeastward in a gentle curve. It will cross northern Minnesota, nipping Duluth with its southern edge, cross the western tip of Lake Superior, include much of Wisconsin and Michigan on both sides of their joint border, skim over the northern third of Lake Michigan and the northern portion of Southern Michigan, glide over the lower half of Lake Huron, sweep across Ontario, picking up Toronto at its northern edge, span the approaching tips of Lakes Erie and Ontario, cross straight over Buffalo, darken northeastern Pennsylvania and southern...
Whatever the practical results of this disarmament, it will doubtless produce considerable rejoicing among historians, for it will skim from the troublous ocean of international causes its deceptive surface of oil. After the next war apologists of the great powers will scarcely be able to plead intervention--for protection of tiny states, involved in unequal struggles--as the lawful motive for participation...
Coach E. A. Wachter is busy this autumn teaching the single scullers to skim along the Charles. With over 90 Freshmen under his instruction as well as many of last year's scullers, he expects to have an interesting regatta at the end of October...