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...Paris, "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys" had be come a vaudeville institution. A few years after the Peace Con ference, the whole family retired, the Little Foys because they were emerging from their first childhood, Eddie because he was entering his second. By that time he had grown into a theatrical legend of fatherhood, of wierd vocal inflections, of furious stage gestures, of boisterous acting. He removed to New Rochelle, N. Y., remarried, settled down...
...address begins as a novel and ends as a tract, the recent general strike in England developing from a background into a thesis. The reader is left with an impression of Mr. Wells as a very sincere and vigorously intelligent man who has grown impatient and tedious...
...dozen years since one of the most popular young men in the U. S. began to visit around the country, at first in very grown-up long trousers, later in more grown-up short ones, with a flaming Swiss Guard's cap during the War (when he helped get $150,000 for the Red Cross) and a smile that grew broader and readier as he filled out, steadied down and began to win the biggest tournaments?Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of golf and Atlanta...
...said of him: "No one knows more about rubber than Edison." Said Mr. Edison of the Dutch East Indies report: "There is no doubt that the method will greatly increase output as well as cheapen it. ... I am not working to cheapen rubber. ... I believe enough rubber can be grown in the U. S. to. pull us through [in case of war]. The price is not serious in such a case...
...ruthless desperado who murders and tortures those unfortunate enough to have been shanghaied aboard his Seven Seagoing vessel. When the crew finally rises in mutiny their leader is discovered to be the man whose wife and infant daughter the gory captain had stolen years ago. The daughter has grown up to be the one lovely thing aboard, so there is a hero...