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...first time in her life and be willfully unfaithful to her husband, Lawyer Edward Beale of Brooklyn, Harvard and Manhattan. Up to that point, characters and motives have progressed only by lurches, blockaded by Mr. Hackett's gesticulating presence. Eleanor and Stephen get away splendidly, but stall in their big love scene, which is therefore obscene. Frantic, Mr. Hackett descends again to the crank, gets them chugging through an idyll in Virginia. Edward barely escapes nervous wreckage at a memorable Democratic convention. Eleanor finds the low road tarred. The nice young couple are reunited on the high road...
Died. McKinley, Arabian horse on which Col. William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") galloped into the ring at his famed Wild West Shows; in Denver, Col. Since 1917, when his master died, he has kept to his stall. Last November, he emerged to lead the Armistice Day parade-his last public appearance...
Stroke, John Watts: 7, W. G. Salton-stall; 6, H. G. Cushing; 5, C. B. Hitchcock; 4, Walter Maynard: 3, J. G. Buckley; 2, Donald Murchie: Bow, F. L. Ames Jr.; cox, C. H. Pforzheimer...
Among the Christmas magazines at the news-stalls there lay a newcomer, a monthly fiction magazine, with a creamy cover, a big golden moon, a golden skirted lady and gold stars. You stared at this magazine because there, beside the lady's golden skirt, in big red letters, the list of contributors looked so extraordinary. You had heard all the names before, but for a moment you could in no way connect them with a news-stall. It was like running across a bishop in a saloon or seeing your wife about to play quarter- back...
...door of the executive office, a large hideous chamber, papered green and with a metallic ceiling embossed with a design of palm leaves, cornucopias and parallelograms. The Governor's mahogany conference table is so placed that he sits in a swivel chair in a sort of a stall formed by his rolltop desk, a small table and the large one. He placed the chair, in which he intended Gen. Dawes to sit, at the open end of this space. Then the General entered...