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...wall. On top of a small metal housing, shaped like a truncated pyramid, is a fork carrying the transmitter. Inside the housing is the ringing mechanism, two musical gongs which may be rung emphatically with a metal clapper or softly with a wooden one at the subscriber's whim. Recessed into the housing is the dial, which operates almost noiselessly...
There appear to be conflicting views of the merits of the contest. Chang's insistent effort to nullify the painting job must have had a deeper motive than mere whim or prejudice. One of our associates has suggested that his purpose was a benevolent one; that he realized the used of work relief--and wanted to spread...
...this holy night is ringing with the revelry of a thousand guests; and somewhere old dames are telling an old story over again: How on this eve thoughtful maids "If ceremonies they did aright . . . " might win sight of their lover in their dreams. The fair Madeline, full of this whim is preparing in her chamber. Already Porphyro stands beside the castle gates. An old beldame speaks...
...Outlook Gloomy." Thus a Viceroy, at the absolute discretion and whim of His Majesty's Government, can become overnight a totalitarian Dictator, gagging and blackjacking one-fifth of the human race at his pleasure. But what wing-collared, high-principled Director of the Bank of Scotland ever gagged or blackjacked anybody? To this every Communist and most Socialists would reply with Professor Laski that bank directors are precisely the people who by invisible but effective means have not only been gagging and binding but bleeding India's masses to the verge of destitution, Indian bankers in this respect...
Died. Oliver Herford, 71, writer, artist, Manhattan wit of the 1890's; after long illness; in Manhattan. Most famed Herford witticism concerned his wife, of whom he said: "Peggy has a whim of iron." Like Whistler, he wore a monocle, liked to squelch bores with such jibes as: "I don't recall your name, but your manners are familiar...