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...rocket. Dazzling golds, lacquer reds and blacks provide a setting for a wealth of Chinese ornament-scrolls, silks, rare carvings, vases, a golden Buddha. The walls are papered with golden Chinese tea-paper. On the floor is a great rug of gold, red & black with a geometric pseudo-oriental pattern - designed by Publisher Howard and made in China to his order. The furniture is of lacquer red, trimmed with black. At the red desk are red dictaphone, jars of white jade for clips and pens. A circular mirror five feet in diameter, framed in red and black, hangs...
...sizes is one of the triumphs of Herbert Clark Hoover's career. One of his great doctrines as Secretary of Commerce was that U. S. manufacturers should get together, form trade associations and eliminate industrial waste by agreeing to make their products conform to a common gauge of pattern and quality. In 1925 the bolt, nut & rivet industry showed a disheartening loss of $3,000,000. Having organized itself as Mr. Hoover suggested, it last year made $7,000,000. So well had it learned to standardize that last week, in Manhattan, Federal Judge Frank J. Coleman found...
...mechanical and industrial revolution has altered the whole pattern of American life. It has uprooted millions from the land and thrust them into a strange, incomprehensible and rapidly changing environment. So vast, so deep, so pervasive are the effects of this upon the premises of our conduct, upon the internal economy of our own spirits, that we find ourselves not only without common publicly acknowledged standards of action but oftener than not without clear personal conviction as well...
...pattern my rowing on English systems, but only refer to the trying difficulty experienced last year in displacing for a better man the captain of Oxford or Cambridge. You can not change a man after the race starts as you can in football. F.W.C. Foster...
...then like all good Austrians he went away to war. His finished work, condensed to 15 scenes, shows clearly the teachings of Arnold Schönberg, according to whose ultra doctrine it is enough for music to describe the adventures of themes. With great skill Berg has woven a pattern of absolute forms, in the first act used a Suite and a Passacaglia with 21 variations, in the second a five-movement symphony, in the third a series of inventions. Like Schönberg he used the combination of song and speech which the Germans call sprechstimme. But behind...