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...group of Chinese men gathered last week in a large dismal house in Hong Kong. They watched a man write figures on a board, erase them, write other figures. None spoke loudly but each spoke often. They were selling silver and they were gathered in the silver exchange. In Peking and Shanghai similar groups were gathered. They too were selling. When they were through selling last week silver prices in London and Wall Street reached the lowest low in ten years: approximately 50⅞? an ounce. A month ago Chinese speculators held approximately 20,000,000 ounces of silver...
...This dismal childhood was brightened by thought of Harvey Brune, "the whistling boy." All night once he had played the kirk organ while she blew the bellows. At dawn, annoyed that the blowing stopped, he clambered down to find her fainted from exhaustion. Years later he accepted quite as mercilessly her bright offering of love, only to fling it aside for his music...
...officially in 1919, the Guildsmen planned two plays for their first season. They estimated they would need $2,000. They got $675-revenue from advance subscriptions taken by 135 sanguine friends and acquaintances. Most of the sum was invested in Jacinto Bena-vente's Bonds of Interest, a dismal failure. With the residue the Guildsmen painted new scenery on the back of the old and gave St. John Ervine's John Ferguson. This time their success was tumultuous. The play ran for 156 performances, then toured. Last fortnight the Guildsmen celebrated a prosperous tenth anniversary. In Manhattan...
...stylish! We haven't got any duty involved! Back home there may have been a law against enjoying ourselves the way we wanted to, but there's none here!" "My dear Sam, it's a matter of keeping one's self-respect . . ." Finally came the dismal feminine finish: "Oh, you simply can't understand...
Publisher Black. Baltimore's Publisher Van Lear Black was at Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia last week, as urbane as ever, despite dismal rains. His two pilots and mechanic were hospitalized with influenza. The party flew south down Africa to Cape Town, is now working its way north...