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...only two figures on the great rocks by the beach, watching the silent panorama of moon and stars, listening to the waltzes from the distant craft. They were completely alone in the darkness, distinguishable only by the tips of fire which their cigarettes left against the dark background of spruce. "Won't you keep the box?" she asked him sweetly. "I have no pockets in may cost." Or at least, that is how the Vagabond would remember...
...upper fastnesses of Minnesota, amid a stubby growth of pine and spruce there lies Itasca Lake. Here rises the Mississippi. In the early spring of 1541 canoes floated down the sluggish current of this river that drains the mountain ranges of the United States, and a Spaniard discovered the Father of the Waters. But fever hangs in the mists of the low country and on one black night DeSoto's body was lowered away into the quiet water...
...silk. It is not a large or particularly brilliant spot of color but it represents all that is implicit in the name of Lowell House. It is the Lowell House tie. It will, perhaps, not add much to the sartorial splendor of the carefree house member. It will not spruce up the drabness of last years grey flannels. But it will convey a jaunty mark of distinction. In the drawing rooms of Back Bay hearts will palpitate as the Lowell tie swings into the receiving line, and in after years the little slash of color will mean as much...
...Pilsudski, spruce, sleek-bearded, is the little brother of big Marshal Josef Pilsudski, walrus-mustached Dictator. Recently Col. Jan was made Finance Minister (TIME, June 8) and people wondered what he would do-for Col. Jan had had no previous fiscal experience whatever...
...spruce up pudgy prospective preachers, to make them fit and healthy, President Frederick Carl Eiselen of Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston, Ill. announced last week that henceforth his divinity students must take periodic health examinations throughout their four-year course. To preach well, said he, one must look well...