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...From the open window Harry Gray watched a white cloud mount slowly above the blue state roof of the opposing wing of Randolph Hall and climb slowly into the weak blue autumnal...
Jeff Thatcher is a poor boy. He is forced to leave Pennington Institute under a nasty cloud. Becoming a newspaper reporter, Jeff attends a train wreck. Somewhere under the debris he discovers an absconding cashier with $100,000 of the First National's securities. The reward and the kudos thus accumulated suffice for his return to Pennington, where he "makes" (the quotes are Mr. Scott's) the School Team. Naturally enough the school bully is his defeated rival for third base. In the "big" game of the season Jeff saves the situation with a triple play, unassisted, in the ninth...
...publish the reports of the official investigations of the case. Although the 27 unfortunates have been restored to the civil service, it is declared that their dismissal was irregular, that now they are reinstated at less salary than they formerly received, that their names are unjustly left under a cloud. The New York World comments: " The head of the Arizona Vigilance Committee who said to the bereaved widow, ' The drinks are on us, ma'am; we lynched the wrong man,' expressed the President's attitude...
...domestic consumption as 567,000 bales for February compares with 610,000 for January. When the fewer days in February are taken into consideration, it will be seen that despite superficial appearances, the consumption rate for the latter month has really been higher than that for January. The chief cloud on the cotton trade horizon just now is the impending strike of 36,000 employees in the cotton mills of Fall River, who have demanded a 29% wage increase, to offset the cut of 22½% made in January, 1921. This suggestion of renewed labor difficulties comes rather early...
...irritating lack of humor. It is hard to sympathize with anyone who takes himself as seriously as do both Mr. Anderson and his hero. It is altogether too easy to allow one's sense of the ab- surdity of a good many of its episodes to cloud one's perception of the beauty underlying them. It is hard to read it through with a straight face. The Critics. Many Marriages appeared first in The Dial It was hailed by the extremely advanced as another of the yearly crop of "great American novels." Since its publication in book form...