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...York he lives with his family in a brownstone house on East 18th Street. His wife runs a tearoom on Irving Place, raises cocker spaniels profitably at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. Of their five children, William, 19, works for a power transmission company; Polly, 18, is at Vassar; Frances, 17, goes to Barnard this autumn; Becky, 14, is in high school; Evan, 9. attends a private school in Connecticut. For fun Mr. Thomas plays a little tennis, sails a small boat on Shinnecock Bay. He drinks buttermilk, seldom smokes...
Plant. The physical background they saw looks much as it did in the regime of Antioch's famed, progressive first president, Horace Mann (1853-59). Though a new science hall, a new gymnasium, a library and a tearoom known as "Ye Anchorage" have been built on the big campus that has never been formally landscaped, still standing are the original four dingy brick buildings with their queer, concave pointed towers. Hard by is the college's Glen Helen, a hilly, 1,000 acre forest tract where a century ago lived a Communistic or Owenite colony. The village...
Deputies Rampant. Though the police of Mexico City exercised notable vigilance last week and generally preserved perfect order, a revolver battle was fought between contentious Mexican Deputies last week before the Hotel Iturbide, not ten paces from a well-patronized U. S.-owned tearoom...
...village with his city manners. Unfortunately he finds her sharp and unattractive. The blond hair and blue eyes of his choice are possessed by the daughter of the poor country druggist. Therefore he enters the drug shop, and makes it pay vast dividends by the introduction of a jazz tearoom. The low comedian marries the heiress, and everybody heads for the happy ever afterward...
...favorites?Olga Petrova, "dignified but not ritzy"?Lew Cody, "a highly polished gentleman and a lovely person to meet" "petite little Jackie Saunders," etc. A college girl bought a liberty bond from Mary Pickford? "a thrill that comes but once in a life time." A waitress in a tearoom who waited on Eugene O'Brien had him write his name in her Spanish book which "It is useless to say, I shall never sell...