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...Lord Birkenhead, speaking of the Premier, called him a "lachrymose pilgrim in a motor car and declared the Russian Treaty was an agreement to give "?40,000,000 of English money to a band of murderers who have already robbed...
Elsie Clarendon (Miss Lawrence) is engaged to a startlingly stern, spectacled young artist (Geoffrey Kerr). Just the week before her wedding, there appears a handsome and extremely affable young gentleman from Holland (Vernon Steele). She cuts dates with her fiancé to motor with this new arrival and then directs the new arrival to disappear. Fifteen minutes before the wedding, he can contain himself no longer and returns. The bridegroom, reasonably and yet quite unreasonably irritated, makes a scene. The bride hurls her wedding bouquet on the floor, swears at him with authentic modern fervor and falls into the Dutchman...
...some time, Mrs. Wilson has been consulting with Cram & Ferguson, architects of the Cathedral, on the design of the sarcophagus. Recently, on a motor trip through New England with her brother, she called on the architects at their Boston office and accepted the final plans-a very simple marble tomb with a crusader's sword lying in relief upon its cover...
...completed in a Detroit factory shed. Promoters are already planning air lines and quarreling over passenger and freight rates. Not only the numerous automobile interest there, but bankers and even the municipal Government are interested in the new movement. Particularly active in it have been Edsel Ford, the Hudson Motor Car Co. and the Packard Motor...
...Figures prepared by the editors of Bus Transportation showed last week that 1,593 bus lines have been opened in the U. S. since last January. Over 5,400 motor buses have been purchased at an approximate cost of $30,000,000. Many of these were bought by electric railways for operation in connection with trolley lines. On this basis, the figures at the end of this year will be 25% larger than those...