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...costing about $4,000,000, that will be eight times as fast and efficient as any now joining these two cities. At Bay Roberts, 150 Newfoundlanders bundled on their oilskins and went down the beach through a driving rain to drag in the monstrous sea-serpent of twisted copper, brass, guttapercha and "permalloy" brought in to them by the cable-layer Colonia. The Colonia then plowed off eastward to splice a deep-sea section with the other shore end at Penzance. In August she will lay a final section from Bay Roberts to Manhattan...
...King Fuad of Egypt, the Holy Carpet had not gone to Cairo for two years, but this year things looked better; the King of Egypt had a chance of being made Calif of Islam; the rug started on its journey, accompanied by the soldiers and followed by a brass band which blared out, with wandering horns and cymbals, an Egyptian marching song. Now to the Wahhabis of Mecca music is an offense to Allah, strictly forbidden in holy places. A little crowd of "fanatics" charged the cortege; the soldiers fired; 25 Wahhabis, some of them women and children, fell dead...
...Timers' Hour" has been set at 2 o'clock tomorrow, when a parade with a brass band will take place. Next will come the raising of the newly-adopted flag by 4-A, officials, to be followed by a race on old-fashioned bicycles, an exhibition walking race, and a half-mile...
...clearly demonstrated when Mr. Stokowski raises his baton and the scrannel strains of the violin and cello tremble, quite unsupported, in the hostile air. . . . Now another musician comes in. He carries a horn and a handkerchief and flops down in the first convenient seat; after a premonitory groan, his brass assaults the tune. . . . The piccolo players, the drummer and the flute stroll in, smiling and chuckling; one of them is trying to get a pack of cards into his waistcoat pocket. Obviously a game of penny ante has delayed them. . . . Mr. Stokowski stops while the last of his audience parade...
...Black Flemings, etc.) are said to have rekindled his literary ambition. After meeting her, he hurried from California to Manhattan and got a job on the American Magazine. In 1915 he found time to write The Amateur, followed shortly by Salt (of young men). After fighting abroad, he wrote Brass (of marriage) and Bread (of business women), both of them big sellers, big cinemas. "This writer's life," says his motherly wife, "has been what, I suppose, all would-be writers like to dream that life might be." It is "full and satisfied." At 45, he has an estate...