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...they went on a complete tour of the White House from attic to basement. Mrs. Hoover pointed out the furniture that was private property. In the cellar they saw expert Army packers crating up things for shipment to Palo Alto aboard the naval transport Henderson from Norfolk. Each crate bore big black letters: "Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Stanford University. In care Twelfth Naval District." Mrs. Roosevelt fingered the curtains, made mental notes of replacements and rearrangements. Certainly, she would bring with her some of the early American reproductions made in her furniture shop at Hyde Park. Mrs. Hoover told her that...
...corporation of the world mailed $42,000,000 in dividends to 700,000 shareholders. It was the biggest regular quarterly dividend ever paid by any corporation, received by the biggest single body of stockholders in the world. Few shareholders realized another unique feature about the payment: the checks bore a dead man's signature. They were valid, however, because their real signer was not the Treasurer, but A. T. & T. itself...
...tried to keep things patched up till one evening she met the Right Man: Judge Barney Dolphin, able but not too scrupulous Manhattan jurist, with a Broadway reputation and a wife of his own. They fell in love immediately, and Ann let nothing make any difference. She bore Barney's child, divorced her husband, stood by her man when scandal broke him and sent him to jail, waited for his release, got ready to start all over again with...
...Maugham story into Rain. Helen Menken of the thin face and beech-leaf hair accomplished emotional successes in Seventh Heaven, The Infinite Shoeblack, The Captive. It is to be recorded with reluctance that Mr. Colton's Saint Wench, acted in and managed by Miss Menken, is an unconscionable bore, a pitiably uninspired piece of stagecraft...
...Academy at Andover. Just when domestic tension was getting too much for her along came rich, lavish Stephen Blanchard, full of tales of the prodigal West, fell in love with her and carried her off with him. In Galena, Ill., then a much livelier town than Chicago, Abby-Delight bore her children, cautiously made friends, was gradually glad to become acclimatized. In the boom years of expansion Stephen prospered exceedingly. Then came the Civil War, break-up of friendships and family. Stephen and Abby-Delight weathered the storm fairly well, lived to see one daughter elope, one son killed before...