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...happens in a day. Ethel Vickery starts the day as usual, right, by waking her business-wearied husband Joe with her fatuous Swedish exercises on the floor, and endless personal hygiene in the only bathroom. Rob, their spoiled schoolboy son, lolls in bed turning a hangover into a case of overwork. Rosamond dreams, as far as her knowledge will permit, of violent love at the hands of Wesley, the chauffeur. Only Isabel, the youngest, is up & about, playing in the pools that have unaccountably appeared in the San Andreas canyon's dry streambed. Old Pryor, Ethel's father...
...three bond issues sold at forebodingly low prices of from 19˘ to 24˘ on $1 and the common stock below $5. In March it was reported in the Press tha Clarence Hungerford Mackay, chairman of Postal, director and big stockholder of I. T. & T., had fallen in his bathroom hurt his head. Last week it was an open secret that Chairman Mackay still lay abed, worried and fretful, may never attend another board meeting...
After 61 U. S. concerts, Jose Iturbi, sportive Spanish pianist, sailed for Europe taking with him first U. S. citizenship papers, a Ford, a power plant for generating electricity and water, an electric refrigerator, a set of bathroom fixtures. The contrivances are for a home Iturbi is building in his native Valencia...
...not?the name of Junkers. It may be on the radiator in your hotel room; on the locomotive of your train (it may have been in the engine room of the steamer which took you there); under the hood of your motorbus; on the hot water tap in your bathroom. If you travel by airline anywhere in Europe the odds are 2-to-1 that the name of Junkers is on your plane. Last week the Junkers name was in world-wide headlines. The Junkers Aircraft Company was on the verge of receivership...
...authors' repertoire of humorous situations is not original, but at least it is varied and extensive. Example: "Where are you going?" the irate, over-curious mother asks of grandmother Dixon who is making haste in her own sedate way up the stairs. "To the bathroom" is the pert reply. Much additional fun in better taste abounds...