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...long spiky bristle of the mandarin, was worried. When he heard how the naked chin of Peter gleamed blue and shameless in his new palace, Petersburg, upon the Neva, he sent him a fine rug as one who would say: In mystery the twig is bent, and a patch of hair divides one nation from another. Let peace be between us, my brother, although your shears are impudent...
Lovey Mary (Bessie Love). An orphanage is as inevitably appealing as a cowboy love story or a midnight bathing orgy. The movies do them all. The escape from the orphanage by the recalcitrant, but terribly cute inmate, is always good. Later she settles in the Cabbage Patch, where everybody is poor but picturesque. Of its type Lovey Mary will...
Proceeded methodically to trim and patch the sadly mangled and inadequate tax bill sent to it by the Chamber. (TIME, March...
Valisan of Vladeska, Russian wolfhound, sheer white except for a black patch over his eye. He stalked negligently around the ring, content to give the rabble the privilege of seeing, for once, an aristocrat in ermine. J. Allen Dunn, novelist, judged this class, adeptly weeding out all those dogs which looked too much like the trademark of Publisher Alfred Knopf...
Self-made men have many of them adopted the principle that their sons should go into the factory and "learn the business from the ground up". Thus innumerable scions of wealthy American families have been transplanted from the flower bed of college to the vegetable patch of industry-and usually with beneficial results. Last spring The Nation advanced the theory that the whole body of college students are fit candidates for such stringent routine that they may face the "realities of industrial America." Therefore The Nation offered prizes to undergraduates who should perform manual labor during the summer...