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...criminal's name is hit upon, the ceremonies of detection seem patterned upon the ways of the theatre rather than the ways of life. One Way Street is a melodramatic stereotype and its most exciting moment occurs when the audience sees, dangling brightly from- the end of a trunk, the shining hair of the murdered drug-girl...
...Herter-Edwards conversation was interrupted by an ominous silence and then a silken rustling between the customs men. They were pulling out of one Herter trunk an astonishing quantity of flowered cerise silk, lined with baby blue. The material eventually resolved itself into a gentleman's dressing gown of prodigious proportions, a dressing gown from Paris to fit only such a monster figure as that of William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards. This article, which was a present for Mr. Edwards, was nowhere mentioned in the Herter's declaration...
...begin with, his name was not even the U. S. Grant of fame and fancy, but Hiram Ulysses Grant-the initials proudly etched in brass tacks on the trunk he was to take on his unwilling way to West Point. Suspecting that fellow cadets would guy him for initials H. U. G., he plucked out the tacks, signed himself reversely Ulysses Hiram. But the registrar had him down as Ulysses Simpson Grant (an absent-minded senator had assumed the mother's maiden name) and refused him admittance without authorization from Washington. Ulysses, characteristically impatient of government red tape, made...
Last week, while engineers of the Pennsylvania Railroad proceeded with plans to electrify its trunk lines from New York to Philadelphia (TIME, Nov. 12), lawyers reviewed the intricate financial network across which the Pennsy spins its tracks. Every passenger, dining on a crack New York-Philadelphia train, knows he is eating Pennsy food, sitting on a Pennsy chair, riding in a Pennsy car on Pennsy wheels. But not every passenger knows he is riding over the lines of the United New Jersey Railroad & Canal...
...Desert travelers sometimes split a barrel cactus in half, squeeze the pulp through a cloth, get a cup of sweetish water. The giant cactus, a mass of pulp held together by fibrous ribs, absorbs water on rainy days and swells out like a toad. Woodpeckers drill holes in the trunk, occupy them...