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...Streussel recipe: half cup of butter, eight tablespoons of sugar, one grated lemon rind, one pinch of cinnamon, four cups of cake flour. Mix, break into rough crumbles, spread thick on yeast-raised coffee cake...
Manhattan society has let its hair down in recent years, no longer counts an opera box the chief symbol of eminence. Metropolitan box holders have begun to dodge their assessments. Last week the fact-facing news came out that the real-estate company is feeling the pinch, may face liquidation. So said its President Robert S. Brewster in a letter to the Opera Association's Chairman Cornelius Newton Bliss. In reply, the Association (which has a lease for next season) asked for an option on the opera house for $1,500,000 (one-third cash). Should the option contract...
...Crimson runs came in the eighth when, after pinch hitter Burges Ayres rapped out a clean single, Rice came through with his four bagger...
Last week they had their revenge. March business had dropped back to the August rate and the "outside" copper dealers, feeling the pinch, let the price down to 10¼?. The big producers, however, refused to follow, preferring to keep the price split, since the independents do not have the capacity to handle much business. Finally, early in April, American Smelting & Refining cut its product to 10¼?, halfway between the independents and the other big producers, forcing the big producers to follow them down...
...devotes all its footage to London, before and after L. C. C. days. Its staging of Dickens' day is more stagey than Hollywood's, but in its prying around modern London it uncovers much straight, unsugared stuff. It explores sagging flats, unkempt streets, records the pallor and pinch of slumdwellers' faces. The commentary: "Democracy means faith in the ordinary man and woman, in the decency of average human nature. Here then in London build the city of the free...