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...more years than one cares to remember," mused the Washington Post last week, "the Metropolitan has been passing through Washington on its way to Atlanta." For 19 years, to be precise. Not since Theodore Roosevelt sang off the key in his White House bathroom, not since the Metropolitan meant the tenor glory of Caruso, not since 1908, when the name...
...marines and 24 refugees barely managed to gain Socony Hill, under a running fire from Chinese snipers. Marine Plumley alone was wounded, but was able to walk, continuing to return the Chinese fire. At Socony Hall, Mrs. Davis, the other women refugees and the children crowded into a spacious bathroom, lay down on the floor. The children, unconcerned, counted the bullets pinging into Socony Hall. Consul Davis parleyed with the Chinese attackers, buying them off from hour to hour, until those at Socony Hall had no more money. Then said a Chinese: "We don't want money, anyway...
There is but one bitter fruit in the overflowing cup Harvard may bring forth a future Gilbert: Tony's rival may be nodding in some Churca Street stable and some Fogg aesthete may design a bathroom to suit de Mille's taste--but never, on never, never, can Harvard yield a Greta Garbo...
...butt crashed against the door. . . . Tough, the door held. The soldiers demanded of Señor Rioseco that he come out and submit to arrest. They shouted that he had embezzled 3,000,000 pesos ($360,000). "Open the door in the name of the law! . . ." Within the bathroom the pistol spat lead. Six shots ripped through the door, made the soldiers quiet, wounded one. Then with his last shot, Señor Rioseco committed suicide, slumped down into the soapy water...
...last week, when the U. S. Supreme Court decided that they were illegally restraining trade. Most of the individuals will be sent to jail. The Trenton (N. J.) Potteries Co., and the other members of an association, having factories in nine states, manufactured and distributed 82% of the vitreous bathroom fixtures produced...