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Marie Drazdorf dumped piles of mail into the stove. Proposals of marriage, she knew they were, from gentlemen, knaves and louts who yesterday would not have noticed a sweeper of floors, a scrubber of steps. She burned everything without opening an envelope. Half of them were begging letters, too; boasts from dressmakers, stores offering credit, lawyers offering advice. . . . Marie Drazdorf spent some of her savings for a new suit for her boy, but she told her man, Josef Raff, to keep on working like the steady man he was. They would wait for the fortune to come in July. Then...
...CONFLICT-Robert R. Updegraff-A. W. Shaw Co- ($2). Author Updegraff has dedicated this industrial romance to "the John Rowntrees of today who are wiping out the memory of the H. B. Lockharts of yesterday." In 1900, aged 25, John Rowntree suddenly inherits his father's nationally advertised stove and range company. Forthwith baldheaded, leather-skinned H. B. ("H. B.") Lockhart, onetime Rowntree employe and now proprietor of a rival stove works, makes an indecent proposal: "Let's combine, juggle the stock, and sell out! Easy money!" Young Rowntree refrains from smashing Mr. Lockhart's face, stalks...
...kings. There was Weng Fu, the wit-wandering beggar who sold himself as a father to an orphan boy in the Street of Wang's Broken Tea Cup near the Seven Thieves Market, and "that lazy Ah Fun" who blew up his honorable father with the bed-stove, broooomp! All these things and many more Mr. Chrisman noted down carefully, wrote out with humor and understanding...
...nubbly acres until he was 17, then got a job at $1.50 a week in a general store at Bellows Falls, Vt. It was the sort of store that has been made familiar to everybody as a stage-set for dramas of New England-a long room with a stove in it, a few boxes of sweet crackers, a teamster or two, a cat in a chair, a dingy glass case filled with painted chocolates and striped stick candy. A bell rang when you opened the door, and John Shedd's employer rose from his rocking-chair to indicate...
...upperclass crews collided late yesterday afternoon as they were rounding the bend in the Charles just above the Cambridge Boat Club. The bow of one of the shells was broken completely off just forward of the combings, and the other boat had a gaping hole stove in its side. Fortunately for those rowing, Head Coach Brown, and Coach Heard of the 150 pound crews were both nearby, and succeeded in getting all the oarsmen into their launches and towing the shells the short distance to the Newell boathouse before they sank...