Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a lead manufacturer. Regretfully, Lead's President Edward J. Cornish got out. Last week President Cornish got Lead into Associated Lead Manufacturers, Ltd., Great Britain's largest fabricator of lead products. (The deal involved a large but not majority block of stock.) Thus, National Lead is still Señor Patiño's most important customer, with results perhaps, as follows: Lead will not share in Patiño's smelting profits but the price Patiño charges must be distinctly the price Lead is happy...
Headquarters. William Farnum, whose pompadour, jaw and chest expansion were once what all the young ladies of the time covertly admired, is currently to be seen on Broadway, mature, heavy, but still indubitably heroic. As a police inspector he is forced to inquire into the double murder of his own wife and her paramour. For a while suspicion falls on Mr. Farnum's daughter (by an earlier marriage), but this pretty thing is no more a murderess than she seems. When the case has been solved, you are left with two striking thoughts: 1) A convenient and unusual thing...
CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE-Eva Le Gallienne's rendezvous for those who still care for drama as a fine...
...Odingsell River, Ga., a wild duck plunged his head into the mud, had his bill caught by an oyster which held him fast. Hunters approached, saw the hapless duck, shot and bagged him, with the oyster still clamped upon his bill...
...Rank still counts: this particular camp, in which only officers are allowed, is ruled by the ranking officer with the severe discipline, the stiff etiquette, of the regular army. To pass the time the prisoners write novels, play soundless music on a plank painted like the keyboard of a piano, compose invisible petitions on imaginary typewriters. Amateur theatricals turn the whole camp into a burrow of homosexuality. When the Russian Revolution and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk come, the prisoners plan an escape en masse, nearly run into a massacre, are thankful to get back to their safe prison again...