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...supposes that Claire will have to content herself with one of the numerous flood-created bachelors who stalk woman-hungry through the book; but the last page of this palpitating yarn brings a grand climax that sends the reader's imagination reeling off upon further and seemingly inevitable crises and conflicts...
...Gimbel family is like an artichoke. Its stalk was Adam Gimbel who immigrated from Bavaria in 1840 and opened a store at Vincennes, Ind. He raised seven sons who huddled together in department store ownership, first at Milwaukee, later in Philadelphia, in Manhattan, and lastly Pittsburgh (TiME, Dec. 14, 1925). The sons raised their many sons, and kept them snugly in the family enterprises...
...correspondent from whom Mr. Lewis did not stalk away was Dorothy Thompson, curt, mannish, foreign servant of the New York Evening Post. They talked about the Vienna disturbance. "I wish I could see it," said Novelist Lewis, absently...
Price of a New York Stock Exchange seat is like Jack-the-Giant-Killer's bean stalk-steadily it climbs higher. Last week it was, for a few hours, $215,000. Then William H. Bade, 29, onetime Princeton baseball captain, paint dealer, appeared; paid $217,000. Stockbroker Edward A. Pierce who sold that seat must pay approximately $4,000 New York State tax, about $20,000 Federal...
...some birds. My shots killed all these creatures except the rhinoceros, whose neck my bullet entered, lacerating the beast to charging fury. My guide checked it with an accurate shot. I told newsgatherers that I had become so fond of African sport I would return next year, to stalk a giant sable antelope (curved, annulated horns; hairy muzzle; tufted tail...