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Enterprising persons bid up the rents of all available house space in small Brule. Gift "shoppes" opened. Tourists arrived to look around long before the Coolidges' trunks were even half-packed in far away Washington.
Birch into Mahogany. Many American hardwood trees have no particular commercial value. Herr Fritz von Behr, pioneer tree surgeon of Germany, is working with dye pot and surgical instruments on beeches, birches, maples in Maine to make them eligible for future furniture. He selects sound young trees, makes a pattern...
Raquel Meller has been the object of much myth. However, it is generally agreed that she was born in Saragossa, in Aragon, Spain, between 30 and 40 years ago; that she sang in a convent, in fishermen's cafes, before the King of Spain; that she has acquired three maids...
Thus, the noisiest, longest and perhaps the most sincere demonstration of the Metropolitan Opera Company's season in Manhattan. It happened last week after the second act of La Rondine, in which Miss Bori sang with triumphant charm. It was also the last week of the season; but before...
Normally dogs snatch at food; elephants reach out their trunks for it. A man will pull his hand away from a hot plate. These are examples of unconditioned reflexes, fully developed in infancy. They constitute the equipment with which the animal faces life, according to the behaviorists.* By modifying the...