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...good golf game, like a good short story, has a pattern; events climb up to a climax, poise for a moment, then climb down again. So it was with the match of Gunn against Jones. The knot in the chain, the plateau of the climb, the scene the reporters were waiting for, came at the 12th hole...
France and Italy shall profit not a jot by the easy terms accorded Belgium, if Mr. Coolidge has his way. They will be examined impartially as to paying power, and then fitted out with an inflexible outfit of liquidation terms, cut along a take-it-or-leave-it Yankee pattern...
...socks crept slowly down to form a wad at the heels of minute dancing slippers? Not at all. The dance was the odious "Charleston," condemned by all dancing masters last year, now adopted in deference to popular taste, after vast modifications. No flourish of trumpets attends its innocent pattern. Dancing masters stand up straight; they do not lift their toes from the floor, or walked pigeontoed, box-angled, snake-hipped; 45 degrees to the right is the step, then 45 to the left...
JUNGLE DAYS-William Beebe-Putnam ($3.00). A pattern of shot felled a yellow-headed vulture, which had swooped upon a spectacled owl, which had clenched (and been hugged dead by) an anaconda, which had bolted a basha (torpedo-shaped fish), which had snapped up a pok-poke (smoky jungle frog), in whose food canal lived an opalina (irridescent protozoan covered with hairlike flagella). Explorer William Beebe, who fired the shotgun, indicates this chain of life with his dissecting knife, philosophizing as he studies Nature in the steaming jungle of British Guiana. Other chapters-creeping, rustling, whirring, crashing, oozing with live...
Sued for Divorce. Condé Nast, publisher and chief owner of Vogue, Vanity Fair, House and Garden, Royal, Children's Vogue, Vogue Pattern Book, by Clarisse Coudert Nast, daughter of Charles Coudert, member of the law firm of Coudert Bros., one of the oldest international law firms in the U. S.; in Paris. They have lived apart for some time...