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...price they will return 8% on his money to the investor for the next 35 years-if the Young Plan remains sound and Germany continues to pay. But such a price as $68 is proof enough that confidence in the Young Plan has waned some 25%, reason enough to explain the alleged presence of Tycoon Young in Paris last week "incognito...
Before the bleak, hospital-white walls of his gallery splattered with Marin water colors, Dealer Stieglitz stood belligerently trying to explain to reporters what there is about these pictures, formless daubs to many an initiate, that causes such enthusiasm. Said...
...more heatedly each time as she remained silent: 1) Who she thought she was? 2) If she thought she could "get away with it because she was a woman" or "because she might have influence?" 3) If she knew what the penalty was? 4) If she would like to explain her silence to the judge? Suddenly she spoke: "I'm Mrs. John A. McPherson and I didn't know it was wrong to park double and I haven't been driving a car long enough to know the rules, and I don't think that just...
...Whistler "the difference between a pound and a guinea was not the difference between twenty shillings and twenty-one, but the difference between being treated as a tradesman and treated as a professional man or an artist. Such a feeling is very English and almost impossible to explain to a foreigner, but Whistler had absorbed it ... completely. ... A thousand guineas for his work might have sent him away not too dissatisfied, but a thousand pounds seemed to him a deliberate insult...
...back to the two Houses; they both have been having secret practice. This is bad. It may explain the panels in Lowell House tower, but it defeats the whole purpose of the Plan itself. The boys are supposed to chum around with each other. To segregate the football squads is not fair to the others. Besides it wouldn't be at all surprising to find the Dunster House team coming down to dinner and taking up a whole table by themselves. They might not pay any attention to their supporters and, worse, their supporters may not pay any attention them...