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...whole show away, have discovered there is more than one way to kill a cat. Gertrude Stein did it by pretending it was Alice B. Toklas speaking. Norman Douglas did it by thumbing through a lifetime's collection of calling cards, telling what he could remember about each visitor. Last week Gladys Bronwyn Stern beat an even more ingenious path about the bush. Readers learned little from Monogram about the facts of Author Stern's life but heard plenty about her fancies and opinions. For her admirers, the plenty was a surfeit...
...vicinity of midnight a strange visitor with a large box under his arm staggered into the building. In a few moments the door of the third floor ward was silently opened. With that indescribable odour that pervades hospital wards there was suddenly blended the invigorating perfume of beer, not faintly but distinctly and unmistakably. Silently the nocturnal visitor stepped from bed to bed, anxiously studying the sleeping faces, searching, searching. Apparently satisfied after traversing half the ward and arousing several light sleepers, he placed his burden on the foot of a bed, turned and stalked from the room...
...duty entered. She walked to the bed, lifted the box in her arms, and tiptoed to the door again, closing it behind her. There were whispered conjectures among those who had awakened as to the significance of the strange event. The door, however, was soon opened again. The visitor had returned, again the possessor of his mysterious box. Strange! No one had heard the nurse scream. He paused but he bedside of a man near the door, and inquired in an audible whisper: "Is this the third floor?" Receiving an affirmative, he demanded assurance. "You're sure this...
...just loves hamburgers," the visitor whispered before tiptoeing awkardly from the room...
Still anxious to please Mrs. Taft, Architect Gilbert designed a courtroom that to the casual visitor is one of the most impressive chambers in the U. S. A row of Ionic columns surrounds it. Bronze and steel grilles shut off the wing corridors. A handsome sculptured frieze surrounds the walls. The bench itself is a chaste and dignified bar of polished mahogany...