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...rules of the game, indeed, all human life in nomad Arabia would have become extinct." The love of Faris and Tuema was gay, poetic, eloquent and chaste. To Faris the girl was "as shy as a gazelle fawn." He cried out: "I shall never be at peace until the slender blossom bends before the storm of my love." Awed and impressed by such tempestuous passion, Carl Raswan received the confidences of the lovers, was present at their meetings. Faris would put his hand over Tuema's heart, saying thoughtfully: "It jumps like a wild rabbit." And Tuema would murmur...
...Christ"; Bed Reader. When Howard Hughes sold Jean Harlow to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it helped to ripen her friendship with Paul Bern, one of MGM's ablest associate producers. Handsome, slender, melancholy, brilliant and distinguished by his profound sympathy for other people's troubles, Paul Bern was called by his friends "a motion picture Christ." The phrase had no wide currency until Labor Day, 1932-the day, two months after his marriage to Jean Harlow, that Paul Bern was found naked in his bathroom, face down and dead, with a bullet in his brain. His friends might have...
Founder-Chairman Alexander Duncan of Commercial Credit looks and acts like a cinematic tycoon. A canny Kentuckian of Scottish descent, he is tall and slender, ruddy of face, commanding of presence. He rarely entertains, almost never allows himself a vacation. He started his first credit house in 1907, organized Commercial Credit in Baltimore in 1912 with a capital of $300,000. More than half Commercial Credit's total financing comes from the automobile business and the company estimates a profit of from $5 to $7 on each automobile transaction. It has official contracts with Chrysler and Packard. Last December...
...gall bladder is a slender, pear-shaped sac attached to the under side of the liver. Its purpose is to receive, concentrate and store the bile which the liver produces and, after a meal containing bacon, cream or other fats, to squirt some of its supply into the intestines. Typhoid fever germs occasionally slip into the gall bladder and tenaciously resist all medical efforts to dislodge them. They make a chronic typhoid carrier of the person whose gall bladder they infest...
Nathaniel C. ("Nat") Murray, 72, crop estimator for Clement, Curtis & Co., Chicago brokers. Slender, scholarly, pipe-sucking, he inherited his eye for crops from his father who was editor & publisher of the Cincinnati Price Current. Forecaster Murray started with the Department of Agriculture, whose crop reporting section he headed from 1920 to 1923. The Canadian wheat pool is said to have considered Nat Murray's crop estimates better than the U. S. Government's. His record for accuracy is best illustrated by the fact that the average of. his final crop predictions over an eight year period matched the Government...