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...There's naught but care...
Harley Street magnificos availed him naught. Not until he bumped into old Buff Thompson did it come back to him that he was grey little Peter Blagden, "Mr. Peter" to family servants and solicitors. When the real Petre (John Kosciuszko Petre, U.S.A.) spurred an action, all the King's legal horses and men balked valiantly and the episode ended happily for nearly every...
...Vanishing American will be as popular a film as The Covered Wagon. Only time can tell that. It is built on the same plan, acted (principally by Richard Dix) with similar excellence, and is continuously interesting. For this, the very finest type of motion picture, there can be naught but eulogy...
...figured the 100 million are located, and the plan was to check results with the findings of other observatories. But with new finds being made constantly, adding thousands of stars to the scene, and with other maps delayed, the British work will soon be out of date, gone for naught...
Both facts sound like Yale: his education went for naught, and he thought all colleges were like that. Even so, Mr. Vandercook has a tremendous advantage over the average New York man. He found out in one year what it takes most of them four to discover. By a mere technicality--a little matter of three years' residence--Mr. Vandercook failed to get his degree, when, by rights, his unusual acuteness really entitled him to a summa. No wonder he left in disgust for the jungles of South America...