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...place so well that she stays for good, giving the St. James scene-shifters a light evening and the acrobatic orchestra leader. Mr. Hector, less time than usual for his daily dozen. Her remaining is made quite respectable by the kindly interventions of the landlady, admirably played by the slender Miss Layng, artificially enlarged for the evening to the proportions of an All American guard...
...Author. Harvey O'Higgins is a man of 48, tall and slender, with keen, sensitive features and a quiet grey eye. He was born and educated in Canada, of British parentage. A legal career had originally been planned for him : but the lure of the pen led him into newspaper and magazine work which, in turn, took him to New York. The Youth's Companion was his first literary medium. His chief previous publications are Prom the Life, Some Distinguished Americans, The American Mind in Action, The Secret Springs...
Specifications. The architect's draft of this world's first educational skyscraper shows a great soaring edifice, Gothic in form but not in detail, rising tower above flanking tower, up and up along slender perpendicular lines to a blunt, shorn-off pinnacle 680 ft. above the rectangular base. The base is to be 360 by 260 ft., with four main arches, each 39 ft. high, opening into the heart of the pile. Batteries of high-speed elevators will be installed to race aloft through the tower to class rooms, laboratories, shops, libraries distributed on the building...
Defense. Questions were asked in Parliament. Sir Patrick Hastings, tall and slender, his jet black hair giving him an almost youthful appearance, took his place in the front bench to "give the House every available detail of the Campbell case." He read from a voluminous mass of briefs, stated that he had found that Campbell had a good war record, had been wounded, and was engaged only as acting-editor of the Workers' Weekly. "What sort of a figure would I cut," he demanded, "in prosecuting for sedition as a dangerous Communist a man who could hardly hobble into...
...Austin, Tex., a slender, active man of 41 completed his first month's work as the new President of the University of Texas. Before accepting office, this man had asked his friends to refrain from seeking the appointment for him, had said: "I never aspired to the presidency of the University of Texas because I believed the position to be the most important post . . . probably the most responsible public office in Texas." Notwithstanding, the office commandeered...