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...Pocantico Hills, N. Y., is an estate called "Kijkuit" (Dutch for "Keep Out"). There, in the summertime, behind stone walls, barbed wire and grilled iron, lives the Richest Man. Thither he returned last week from Lakewood, N. J., his annual intermediate stop between the North and Florida. The bed from which he rises at 7 is crumbless, for at "Kijkuit" no one may breakfast abed. At 7:30 the Master leaves his bath. On the scales he finds he weighs less than 100 lbs. In the mirror he sees pale, blue eyes, pointed chin, sunken cheeks, large head, hairless skin...
...Yatsen, preacher of democracy, left last week Peiping's Temple of the Azure Cloud, where it has been for the past four years. Six hundred miles away, a monumental mausoleum was ready to receive it, built by the Nationalist government on a hillside overlooking Nanking. Bearing it thither was an elaborate railway funeral coach, pride of the Peking-Hankow Railway, built of hand carved teakwood, fitted with solid silver doors, window frames, light fixtures, its walls draped with Nationalist red, blue, and white silk, its floors muffled with a blue silk run of double thickness. Most important...
...nine were sitting to complete a U.S. program for the preparatory conference on the limitation of armaments to meet in Geneva April 15. Thither Mr. Gibson will lead a U.S. delegation, hoping for much, expecting nothing...
Agitated either by fear of "overconfidence" or by a great and visible insurgence of Smith strength, the G. 0. P. sent speakers hither, thither...
...After relieving guard, the marshals of the day bore the invitation of the selectmen to the corps, to partake of a collation provided in Concert Hall, and conducted them thither--the Cadets wearing their side-arms only, and marching to the music of their full band...