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This fashion of making bricks has great wastage. In the kiln heat a great portion of the bricks warp and curl. Some can be sold for seconds and used in the hidden supporting walls of low grade apartment houses. Most, however, must be crushed and used as road-making filler...
...life, and not merely with its flags and trappings, who have realized, to quote the Beards themselves, that "the heritage, politics, economics, culture and international filiations of any civilization are so closely woven by fate into one fabric that no human eye can discern the beginning of its warp or woof." For in these two volumes, on a scale never before attempted by any American scholar, the Beards have tried to gather and to express the formative influences, the circumstances and the results of all that has gone to make up American civilization for three hundred years. There...
Were a bed slat yanked from under a napping Southern gentleman, he would be scarcely more annoyed than were Southern businessmen last week when Adair Realty & Trust Co. and Adair & Senter Co. (its construction subsidiary) went into bankruptcy in them?have been the warp of Atlanta's community fabric. George Atlanta...
...MOREL-Karen Bramson- Greenburg ($2). A better book to pop into a steamer basket would be hard to find. Though the material is of the general warp and woof of which detective yarns are tailored there is positively no detecting but a great deal of sure suspense. Dr. Morel, "fashionable specialist" to feminine Paris, is no Dr. Jekyll who turns crudely into a Mr. Hyde by taking mysterious drugs. Rather he is a Jekyll-Hyde, a suave seducer and experimenter with the mortal coil. His undoing is his better self. The theme of a bad man unable to achieve...
...warp and woof of New Bedford, Mass., textile city, scurried to the polls last week, pasted little stickers on many a ballot. On each sticker was the name of Charles Sumner Ashley, Democrat. When the ballots were counted it was found that "Sticker" Ashley had been elected Mayor by a majority of some 6,000 votes...