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...Julesburg, Colo. ... It was named for Old Man Jules, who lost his life and a pair of ears when he inadvertently fired two barrels full of bird shot into Jack Slade, one of the Old West's pet desperadoes...
...upshot is that, inevitably, the grand duke and the girl escape across the border to avoid being butchered by the shaggy Soviets. In The Red Dance they do it in an airplane. And yet, the film is first-class entertainment. Dolores Del Rio and Charles Farrell are a capable pair, though they do not look very Russian. To Ivan Linow went the sympathy and the praise of the audience. He plays the part of a vodka-guzzling peasant, who thinks no woman worth more than a horse, and who becomes one of the Soviet dictators. But he makes possible...
Associate Justices Brandeis, Holmes, Butler, Stone dissented from the majority decision. The dissenting opinions of that distinguished pair of liberal scholars, a Jew and a Yankee, Louis Dembitz Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes, were as vitriolic as any ever read into the records of the Supreme Court...
...value of gold is $20.6718 per troy ounce, and there are 14.583 troy ounces in an avoirdupois pound, so the pound is worth $301.45 and Mr. R's 135 pounds would be worth $40,696.56 "on a pair of accurate scales...
These words were addressed by Dr. John Grier Hibben, president of Princeton University, in a loud voice, to a pair of oak doors. He knocked loudly on the doors three times and a squeaky little voice was heard coming from the inside. Soon the doors opened and a face, under a little red cap, thrust itself between them. This was the face of famed Architect Ralph Adams Cram. The doors were those of the new, huge, Gothic Chapel designed by Architect Cram and built at a cost of $2,000,000, for Princeton students to worship in. The chapel, larger...