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...Stepson-in-Law Martin. Publisher Curtis contented himself in recent years largely with sailing up & down the Atlantic Coast on his steam yacht Lyndonia, summering at his beloved Camden, Me., eating simple fare like baked beans and fish cakes. Once in a great while he would wander into the office of New York Evening Post, invariably stopping at the cigar stand in the lobby to buy a copy of his paper for 3?. As diffidently as an old man who wanted to ask the editor to print a letter about the flower beds in Central Park, he would venture through...
Best fun of all is saved for those who will enjoy it most-small boys and girls. For them has been created the five-acre fairyland, guarded by mammoth wooden elephants, which Mrs. Dawes dedicated last week. Children may wander past pleasantly fearsome caves and pirates' dens, meet a fairy princess, shake hands with a Bagdad giant 7 ft. 7 in. tall. There is a miniature zoo filled with baby animals which, by contract, must be replaced if they show signs of growing up. There is the World's Largest Marble, seven feet in diameter, in a gleaming...
...after the demonstration he prophesied a day when "there will be music in small-town auditoriums as splendid as that which is now played by fine symphony orchestras in large cities. ... I can imagine spacious gardens of pleasure in which happy idlers, after a brief day's work, wander amid the trees while they listen to the strains of great music played in some distant music tower...
...made too nearly like the body: these details, however damning in the eyes of Joy Street matrons, would not under normal circumstances, interpose any real obstacle to the success of the plan. Should the "new economy," however, fall heir to any of the ills of the flesh, and wander off some day, imagining itself somehow a modern Casanova, the results would be most painful...
...regular exhibitions of Modern Art held in the neighborhood. Started by a group of students, it was a lively organization as long as they were in College, but undergraduate interest in it has grown less and less every year until today few but the dowagers of Brattle Street wander upstairs to look at its exhibitions. Who directs it, and why, remains to most a profound mystery, and it would no doubt have passed out of the control of undergraduates long since had not the trustees resisted such a change...