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...Where's your broom han dle?' asked I. He picked up one from behind a fence. I gave him exactly $3,333.33. Half an hour later, a minister's wife, near our home, answering her doorbell, discovered on her front porch our daughter, partly nude, a bit drowsy from drugs, otherwise uninjured...
...FIND ZIEGFELD" said papers. Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. who can spot "a woman of parts" for his shows as quickly as a jockey can spot a likely bit of horseflesh, was sought in vain last week by process servers. Producer Ziegfeld lately announced that his chorines in the future would be decently dressed. Now he seems to have found chorine-wrappings expensive; the Eaves Costume Co. claims he owes them some $30,000 for costumes for his last three shows. Justice Ford came to the aid of foot-weary process servers, said they could serve the papers by nailing them...
Cezanne's paintings develop under the eye almost as a picture takes its shape in the photographers dark room. They are rarely taken at a glance on first acquaintance. The landscape (in a literal sense) unfolds hit by bit, objects take their place in space in the inter space relation within the picture,--the tree in the foreground grows in convincing reality by which we look to the distant hill; suddenly the thing is formed, we see it clearly. The picture remains a picture but just as in actuallity the certainty of the relative fixation of objects is convincing...
...chows as stupid foreigners, bristled at the news, but not in anger. A tremor passed down the lupine spine off big Boris, too, and that very afternoon he was so sentimental about Rennie's glossy brown coat and hang-down ears that Tessa, his Russian-temperamental fiancee, bit him on all four legs. Golden Toes had no idea what it was all about and disported himself as usual, taunting his sister, Poppit-"Runt-o! Runt you are!" he would bark-and tumbling over his own ears. But the others were subtly changed-Tessa into a jealous fury; Boris...
...would smile a bit, mayhap...