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...last few years have been lean ones for many of Boston's leading interests and industries. The Massachusetts cotton-spinning trade is glum, mills are closing down. The leather business has been dull for some time, shoemaking has begun to re-establish itself further west. The "coppers," Boston's favorite speculations, have also paid lean dividends, or none...
...Harry touched on a wide variety of subjects, always in the same characteristic manner. "Education and common sense; they are the same, and the world needs educated men now. The world has been run too long by politicians; we want statesmen today, men who will lean on the breast of truth and listen to its heart beat...
...Humming Bird. Gloria Swanson is emerging from the seven artistically lean years when she was wandering among the wastes of custard comedy and overdressed society. In Zaza, the evidences of her ability to act as well as to wear well were remarked by the critics. In The Humming Bird she has forsaken completely her troupe of trained sequins and adopted boy's clothes. Her part is that of an Apache leader in the Paris slums who leads her dedecorus dragoons to the battle front at the first call of war in 1914. There is, of course, the handsome American...
Yale turned its back on seven lean football years and dragged Harvard through three inches of Cambridge mud to a 13-0 defeat. Blinding rain fell. There were 26 fumbles and only two first downs. Both teams punted ceaselessly, seeking breaks of luck. Yale scored when " Duck" Pond picked up a fumble and ran 67 yards for a touchdown, when Captain Mailory kicked two goals from placement. The victory carries with it the so-called "Big Three" (Eastern) championship...
...Stewart has just returned from Europe. He is now engaged in writing his jaded memories of that trip, most of which he spent in growing a beard, which, for the sake of those who admire his tall, lean face when smooth, I assure you he has now removed. In addition to his travel episodes, he is writing Aunt Polly's History of Mankind...