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...Lihme pantry yielded cakes. The Lihme icebox yielded a clove-fretted sugar ham-and bottles marked "Frontenac Export Ale." Mr. Healy and friends disposed themselves on antique gilt chairs in the Lihme dining-room and gnawed the ham without benefit of cutlery. When ale had washed down ham, one of them flung the ham bone through the glass panel of the pantry door. The bone lodged amid the china on a pantry shelf and Mr. Healy, feeling exceedingly "good," started jumping up and down in the dining-room, swinging his arms, shouting drunkenly...
...fall on him and not be punished. Not on your-ugh-life! He kicked the tangled mass, fetched a poker and beat it, smashed it, crashed it, until his comrades fell into the spirit of the thing and started flinging other things about the room-glasses, salvers, cruets, chairs, ale bottles...
They got a long knife and the fire tongs. Taking the empty ale bottles with them, they lurched out to the foyer, overturning tables as they went, bashing at lamps and pictures, slashing at hangings. Before two pastels of blonde young ladies-Mrs. Olga Griscom and the Princess Anita Lobkowicz, Mr. Lihme's daughters-they swayed, squinting. They swung their weapons, ruined the faces, lurched on to greater havoc, Mr. Healy pausing only to exercise his muscle further on another chandelier...
...Saylor, president and largest stockholder of Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., wants to sell 7,500,000 cases (50 bottles each) of his ginger ale yearly. In 1926 he sold 1,360,000 cases; sales already made this year warranted his announcing last week a stock dividend increase from $2 to $3. Besides selling dry ginger ale the company sells "Sumoro Orange," a concentrated orange drink. Recently it bought out Caledonia Springs Corp. Ltd., of Canada, bottlers of "Magi" and "Adanac" table waters...
...Pullman passengers may be divided into two parts, the "nervous," the "not nervous."* For the "not nervous" Mr. Warner gives silent thanks and hastens to anticipate the imaginary wants of the "nervous." The shade down a little? Yes, Sir. Magazine from the newsboy? Yess, Madam. Drink of water? Ginger ale? Another pillow? Right away?and the more testy the request, the more cheery the service. That is professional ethics. Invariably, the "nervous" are poor tippers. But Mr. Warner and his peers are nearly certain to make up their average of $1 per capita in tips from the "not nervous...