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...buying wave when the bank holiday passed, many prices moved up, giving the lie to the bearish signs of stoppages. Meat prices made the stiffest advance but yielded when housewives refused to increase purchases. Wheat prices were generally up in Winnipeg and other world markets. Cotton moved up a bit at Liverpool. These half-promises of better returns for farmers gave a hopeful indication that farm buying power might be bettered, mail order business and farm machinery business improved...
...share. But he soon, like Denver's Horace Austin Warner Tabor, made up his mind that the only golddiggers who made fortunes were the middlemen; he went back to hunting and trapping for a living. "Gold-digging," says he, "is a horrid occupation, but a bit better than begging." In Alaska and northern Canada he met many an eccentric adventurer. Dawson Tom was a cardsharp whose favorite dodge for getting free drinks was to produce what looked like a stick of dynamite in a crowded saloon, shout: "Closing time! The pub is going up!" and light the fuse. When...
...loves me." The indecisive groom forsakes his new wife for his old girl, goes to Mexico with one of his friends (Fred Keating, who used to make birdcages disappear and eat needles while conversing glibly) to get a quick divorce. But this time Actress Bankhead changes her mind, a bit of luck for Magician Keating...
Having listened all week to lectures on Money and Banking by Professor J. H. Williams (himself one of the leading Thespians of the Economics Department) it was a bit of a surprise to see some two hundred cash customers waiting for seats in the Metropolitan lobby. Let us grant the truth of the lyric that "without a song a man's no good nohow" and say that those people were waiting to hear a song, "42nd Street." They had heard it, perhaps, as the Playgoer did, over the radio the night before. Even in the stage show, the best sequence...
Harvard came back six minutes later to tie up the count again at 2-2. The second line contributed its bit to the evening's scoring when Pell skated down the ice with Wolcott at center, overskated the goal, and passed out to his mate in scoring position. A backhand shot finished off the work...