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Walter Hines Page - onetime editor of the Forum, the Atlantic Monthly, the World's Work, one-time Ambassador to Great Britain -is now dead. But his reputation has grown more and more honorable, the publication of his letters has grown more and more profitable...
...longer were the courts of the West Side Club the scene of a populous and pretty carnival. Combat had narrowed, grown bitter. Miss Wills played Miss Goss. The latter skimmed the net-cord with her strokes, whisked them to send up spirals of chalk from the baseline, won the first set 6-3. Prickly heat began to affect the vertebrae of the spectators. Was a champion going down? Miss Wills, smiling her poker smile, won a love set, ran through six of the next eight games, tucked the match in her vanity case...
...note fell due he had the money. Some of them brought the money to his office so the New Mexico politicians could not find out who had furnished it. The same thing happened again. Later Magee had to sell the Morning Journal for financial reasons, although its circulation had grown...
...commerce between Africa and the U. S. amounted to $47,000,000. In 1924 it had grown to $160,000,000- an increase of 24%. Meanwhile, African trade with the rest of the world had shown an increase of only 140%. This showing is all the more remarkable when it is remembered that Africa is owned by European nations who need her raw materials, and have long cultivated her markets for their goods. There are about 11,500,000 sq. mi. in Africa; England and France control about 4,500,000 sq. mi. of it apiece, Belgium holds about...
...United Wine Growers and Dealers of Germany sent President von Hindenburg (a moderate consumer) samples of all the different wines grown in Germany. It was said that the President's wine cellar was so well stocked that he may, without once repeating, taste a different brand of wine each day for several weeks...