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...younger Walker girls-green wool and cotton uniforms, white crepe de chine evening dresses, riding habits. They had no place to sleep; nor did 80 other girls. For two days prior "Beaverbrook," a stately brick building that contained classrooms, offices, dining room, sleeping quarters, had been gutted by a brisk, suspiciously sudden fire. Most of Miss Walker's girls had to be put up that night at an inn, a country club, in homes in Simsbury and Farmington...
Business is most brisk in glasses, galoshes, scarfs, and green bags, according to Apted. At the present time, the office is holding seven pairs of spectacles for possible claimants, and two and one-half pairs of gloves. Second-hand books are a constant source of trouble. Frequently, the name inscribed in the book is that of the owner once or twice removed. A few weeks ago, a postcard was sent to a student in regard to a book which he had sold at a second-hand bookstore four years ago. In another case, a student who came in to reclaim...
...John's College at Annapolis, third oldest in the U. S. (founded 1696), was until 1923 a military institution. Surprisingly, it had no military president until then, when Major Enoch Barton Garey, a brisk, sturdy graduate of St. John's and West Point, military science professor at Johns Hopkins, became its head. Also surprisingly Major Garey, though his manual of arms textbook is standard in U. S. colleges, abolished military training at St. John's. Major Garey worked for the cultural improvement of St. John's, but he and the trustees disagreed on policies...
...Smart, brisk Banker Fraser is only 43. By training a lawyer, he has never worked in a bank which received or paid out cash. At Basle they send and receive cablegrams and telegrams transferring millions and hundreds of millions, on paper. Often a telephone call suffices. In their safe, some two feet wide by four high, they keep as a solemn joke two coins, a tiny 25? California gold piece (genuine) and a reputed Spanish sovereign (counterfeit). The important thing is that since the B. I. S. was founded in 1930 it has slowly become "The Central Bank of Central...
...polished to a fine finish. Bea thought of retiring, of marrying her assistant. Flake, and having some fun before she got too old. Alas for tycoons, she found that Flake and her daughter were hopelessly in love. Over the end of Bea's career Authoress Hurst draws a brisk veil...