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...seems that the potent King of Ur of the Chaldees, according to the vogue of 3500 B. C., had ordered a butchery to make a stage setting, so that he would not be lacking in entertainment after death. Unfortunately, some arch enemy of the King spoiled the scheme by stealing the royal body from the grave...
...education. Consequently there is a lack of culture, a fact which renders Mr. Mencken's "verbal virtuosity" possible, and results in the creative instinct being stified in a welter of "idealism." Professor Babbitt in his cool analysis of facts succeeds in being distinctly more pessimistic and convincing than his arch-opponent in the lists of contemporary criticism...
Styling himself "Lord," Timothy Dexter crowned a haddock-hawker his poet laureate with a wreath of parsley. He drank copiously, published incessant screeds of his own and built a house which bristled with minarets and was approached through a triumphal arch surmounted with wooden statues of heroes, from Adam to Timothy Dexter, at whom, as at "'Bossy" Gillis, the world gaped...
...worth about $7,000,000. When the appraisers ascertain the value tha Continental Can Co. will arrange a merger with U. S. Can Co., explained President O. C. Huffman of U. S. Can Co. last week. Brick Furnaces. At Mexico, Mo. was the Liptak Fire Brick Arch Co.; at Detroit was the Bigelow Arch Co.- both companies specialists in constructing those huge brick furnaces needed by industrial and power plants. Last week they were merged as the Bigelow-Liptak Corp., Frank B. Bigelow president...
...Hotel des Bergues came, last week, Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski. His red and gold salon carriage* blazoning the white eagle of Poland had barely stopped at the Geneva station when French Consul General Ame LeRoy stepped aboard and gently took in tow the tigerish Marshal. Bystanders smiled when this arch-militarist appeared in a civilian suit and soft felt hat. They sobered, however, as his hand snapped automatically to return a salute and he stalked from the station with long, dynamic strides...