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...sophisticates" tosses a volume to eager admirers. In this case, it is his first book, an autobiographical volume. We see the young Armenian in his early days as a lonely essayist in London. We meet for the first time Shelmerdene, "that lovely lady." We find incorporated a first draft of the first story in These Charming People. We learn, in a gracefully whimsical introduction, how it was that Mr. Dikran Kuyumjian chanced to adopt the less complex and more indigenous cognomen under which he has become so pleasantly-and to himself, profitably-known. On the whole, The London Venture will...
Specifications. The architect's draft of this world's first educational skyscraper shows a great soaring edifice, Gothic in form but not in detail, rising tower above flanking tower, up and up along slender perpendicular lines to a blunt, shorn-off pinnacle 680 ft. above the rectangular base. The base is to be 360 by 260 ft., with four main arches, each 39 ft. high, opening into the heart of the pile. Batteries of high-speed elevators will be installed to race aloft through the tower to class rooms, laboratories, shops, libraries distributed on the building...
Uncle Shiras Graham, general octogenarian reprobate, whose life was saddened when he bought his way out of the Civil War draft, dies after the heartbreaking discovery that $50,000,000 could not all be profitably used in the interests of monkey glands...
According to Professor Woods, Dr. Mei was delayed in reaching his port of departure by the fighting going on among rival factions in Southern China. He finally arrived in the besieged city of Shanghai only to encounter difficulty in cashing the draft he had received from the University, and which was intended to defray his expenses to Cambridge. Three boats sailed for America before Dr. Mei finally succeeded in cashing his check, and he is now reported on his way back to Cambridge...
...Brown 3L, temorary chairman of last night's meeting, read a letter which had been received from the Democratic club asking the La Follette supporters to unite on Davis to defeat Coolidge. The club voted unanimously to decline the offer and empowered the officers to draft a vigorous reply today...