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...death but a metal cap Like the lid on a soup tureen...
Senators Charles Curtis and his lively colleague, Senator Arthur Cap- per, to introduce a band of Kansas flood-controllers headed by Governor Ben Sandford Paulen...
...would return to Berlin, that she had already been invited to open the new Metropolitan Opera House. She herself has spoiled the stories.? For her, opera is finished. Henceforth she works in miniature. In opera she played chiefly from her heart, from now on the New England thinking-cap must have harder wear. She will play, and live, from her head as well. For four years she has had the courage, intelligence, to live in seclusion studying, preparing herself for the new adventure?for Lieder, their finest lines, their beauty and simplicity...
...Five O'Clock Girl. A large-sized musical comedy descended upon Manhattan, its cap feathered with Mary Eaton & Oscar Shaw. Norman Bel Geddes scenery and a tune ("Thinking of You") were, many thought, even abler ingredients. The plot, that old dodderer of musical comedies, explained how a modiste's model married a millionaire. The jokes were moldy, the dancing deft, and the vast chorus uncommonly bewitching. Imbedded none too conspicuously in the generally unwieldy proceedings is an actor named Louis John Bartels, playing his first part on Broadway since he laid a just claim to fame as the blabbering, brilliant...
...book though it is accepted by a Manhattan publisher, in whose office Eden meets Alayne Archer. When he takes her back to Jalna, sweet old Adeline pats her "with a hand not so much caressing as appraising. She raised her heavy red eyebrows to the lace edging of her cap and commented with an arch grin: 'A bonny body. Well covered but not too plump. Slender, but not skinny. Meg's too plump. Pheasant's skinny. You're just right for a bride. Eh, my dear, but if I was a young...