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Does all this bore you? It shouldn't; it should give you confidence. The above quotations are headlines in the real estate section of yesterday's New York Herald Tribune. Here are some more...
...scarcely approved of Sister Anna, who spent much money, married successively Count Boniface ("Boni") de Castellane and the Due de Talleyrand; or smart Brother Frank Jay twice-divorced, who dabbled (and still does) in French gambling palaces; or her late Brother George Jay, whose second wife (Guinevere Sinclair) bore him three children before he married her in 1921. Helen Gould stayed by her father, who trained her in finance, took her in his confidence before he died of tuberculosis...
...dying were strewn along the right-of-way. Peasants running up from the fields did their best to pull maimed bodies from the wreckage. They were laid on the parallel track while telegraph operators wired Moscow frantically for help. Suddenly a freight train, proudly burdened with Soviet goods, bore down from the opposite direction. The wounded could not move. The freight could not stop...
Thirty years ago Dr. Diarmid Noel Paton of Edinburgh noted that the undernourished mothers of Scotch slums bore undersized children. He concluded, and the idea still prevails generally, that the thinner a woman keeps herself during her term, the slimmer her child will...
Errett Cord has been married twice, has three children. Two sons, 16 and 14, are by his first wife who died in 1930. Nine weeks ago his second wife bore a daughter. The Cords spend much time in California where, at Beverly Hills, they are building a spacious new house, and when in Chicago they live in a penthouse. At one time they had twelve automobiles. Now Errett Cord has cut down to a Duesenburg (two years old), a Cord and two Auburns. He hates society, does not go on weekend parties often because it is too hard...