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...bore can wear out the Castle patience. His social circuit about Washington is wide and continuous. At his S Street house near the Woodrow Wilson residence he provides frequent and elaborate hospitality. (The Castle family, with its Hawaiian holdings in banks and public utilities, is wealthy.) Late in the afternoon he can generally be found swimming in the Racquet Club pool...
...attacks the Metropolitan Museum and Curator of Paintings Bryson Burroughs have made no reply. They made none last week. But sharp-eyed reporters noted that at least one Metropolitan canvas had been demoted. One of the most important "Rembrandts" acquired by the museum bore last week...
...chatter, a bleat, and a bore...
PERHAPS the most valuable instrument in the hands of the historian is "time". It is easy to censure or to praise from the safe distance of four or five decades, whereas the contemporary critic is in constant danger of blemishing his own reputation. Mr. Muir bore this in mind when he wrote this little volume on the world after the war of 1914, and he takes the precaution to temper his political prescience with such phrases as "Time alone can reveal the results," or "Whatever the outcome, it will rank among the great events of human history...
...execution of its financing program gave the Treasury a tidy little profit. The matured notes bore 3½% interest. They were retired with a bond issue at 3⅜% and (figuratively) short-term securities at 2% and 1½%. This represented a reduction from 3.75% to 3.72% in the interest rate on the gross public debt. Small in percentage, it meant an actual annual saving of $15,700,000 in the Government's interest payments...