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...islands.* Carriage horses are expensive to rent or keep (oats and hay must be imported from New York). Nowhere outside of Holland is the population so cycle-minded. Largest town is Hamilton where stands the Sessions House, Bermuda's parliament; the Cathedral; the cinema (Mechanics Hall). Here dock the liners from New York and Liverpool and here are the great hotels: the Hamilton, the patrician Princess, the gaudy Bermudiana. And here are Bermuda's chief emporia: Gosling Bros., for groceries, foodstuffs, wines & liquors; and Trimingham Bros, department store. Trimingham's does...
Other Power Commissioners appointed: Frank R. McNinch, onetime mayor of Charlotte, N. C.; Ralph B. Williamson, Washington irrigation lawyer; Marcel Garsaud, member of the New Orleans Dock Board; Claude L. Draper, organizer and member of the Wyoming Public Service Commission...
...Hudson River School. Later he went abroad, studied in Paris, traveled and sketched extensively in Europe, Africa, the Levant. Here commenced his interest in decorative arts, particularly glassware, which led to his development of that heavy iridescent substance known as Tiffany Favrile Glass. His first U. S. exhibit, "A Dock Scene, Yonkers," was in the National Academy of 1869. He became (and remains) Vice President and Art Director of Tiffany & Co., jewelers. He is president and founder of Tiffany Furnaces and Tiffany Studios, which have filled many a church, mausoleum, library, with windows artfully simulating oil paintings...
...table before the judges were the exhibits in the case: books, anti-Fascist pamphlets belonging to de Rosa, and the ridiculous little nickel-plated pistol which he had fired. Prisoner de Rosa, 22, stood in the dock. Blond, pink-cheeked, he wore an expensive grey suit, had employed his year in jail by growing enormously...
Angel Pavement is a dock-tailed street shuffled in somewhere in E. C. 1 or E. C. 2, and one of the forgotten firms upon it is Twigg & Dersingham, Veneers and Inlays. Upon this languishing business bursts James Golspie, breezy and bumptious, fresh from the Baltic with the sole agency for foreign inlays and veneers procurable at a fabulous economy. In a day affairs are metamorphosed. Impressionable young Dersingham (Twigg is dead) makes a vague sort of manager out of Golspie, who scorns a partnership. Prosperity descends upon the stuffy office. Everyone is cheered, and if Smeeth, withered cashier, Lilian...