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Pretty little Rhineland towns like Bad Schwalbach and Koenigstein bade stolid, silent farewells last week to British troops who have been quartered in the vicinity of Wiesbaden all through the decade since...
...supposed to have speculated by mail in the stock market, plunging on Moon Motors, Ventura Oil. When he left jail last week, he carried with him the sum of $1.60. At the State Farm Pomeroy sulked in the sunshine. He was displeased at ejection from his Charlestown "home." Silent, stolid, unsmiling, he awaited an operation for hernia...
...Soviet Russian, the British fiance is the cad. He is removed by the Bolshevik in a tussle over a hatchet. The problem is then posed as to whether the girl could live happily with her Russian in his own striving milieu, minus Claridge's and cabriolets. The stolid Slav does not think so, plods off alone. These platitudinous doings are described as "the first play to come out of Soviet Russia." Actor Leonid Snegov, onetime member of the Moscow Art Theatre, gave an occasionally trenchant air to the piece. The play lasted six days...
...authorities of the H. A. A. who have been in daily contact with the University's athletic problems for many years are heartily in favor of it. Since the Corporation is not technically qualified and is forced to get all its information on the problem at second hand, their stolid stand-pat attitude is particularly obnoxious...
...Davidson. Master of men and millions, the face of John Davison Rockefeller is anxious, unbelievably seamed above his sparse and fragile body. Mistress of precious intellection and writer of what seems gibberish to most readers, Gertrude Stein is shown with a face rugged, calm, confident above a stolid mass which scarcely defines itself as a body. There are many other works by individual chisellers, Hunt Diederich, Daniel Chester French, the late Emil Fuchs, John Gregory, Malvina Hoffman, Leo Lentelli, Henry Augustus Lukeman, Edward McCartan, Eli Nadelman, the Piccirilli brothers, Lorado Taft, William Zorach. . . . If the modern U. S. lacks...