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Reason for this abrupt abandonment of the long-skirted mode: On the second day the Heavens opened, shot a bolt of lightning which killed popular Bookie Walter Holbein as he was accepting bets, then poured such a Biblical deluge that water backed up six inches deep in parts of the Royal Enclosure, svelte ladies lost their shoes in the mud, everyone's long skirt got spattered and trampled, picture hats were lost, soaked and crushed in the mad scramble for cover, everyone's car or bus seemed to stick in the mire, and long after dark bedraggled gentlemen...
...year students. Formerly it had been the practice to give the least attention to this class on the grounds that the elementary quality of those subjects open to them did not warrant any more attention. For obvious reasons, the result was disastrous. After being thrust into an entirely different mode of education, and then being left to the by-no-means capable hands of the average Freshman instructor, it is small wonder that there was considerable trouble...
...Harrman of Hanover" and "Angerstein of North Germany"?probably the most ferocious, wholesale destroyers of life (except in Wartime) since the Middle Ages. Oddly enough last week, the heirs of Killer Angerstein collected on his life insurance. After prolonged litigation the court held that beheading (the official German mode of execution) constitutes "death" within the meaning of an ordinary insurance policy...
...structure withstood the earthquake of 1923. In Buffalo he built a factory for Larkin Co. which was one of the first to emphasize pier and grill construction. The ateliers of Europe long ago paid respect to Architect Wright. Progressive U. S. architects long ago fell in with his rectilinear mode because it is easy to build. Hand-carved traditional ornament, always eschewed by Wright, is almost universally regarded now as an artificial extravagance in a machine age. Steel skeletons and stone sheathing are, as Wright predicted, expressed rather than concealed. Architects are proud to design power stations which look like...
...Hardy was near enough to her husband to be able to relate numerous anecdotes such as these, but a solemn man makes sedate copy; her biography is by no means in the chatty, picaresque modern mode...