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...Hemingways was the revival in Los Angeles of several old-time melodramas in which, it was noticed, most of the villains were named Hemingway. The charter members and founders were three disgustingly fresh young men who hate everyone, who trip up old ladies on stairs, wrest candy from children, push invalids down hills in wheel chairs and take away cripples' crutches. Most Horrible (official title) is Alan Brown, sophomore at Pomona College. The other two: Robert Forbes, sophomore at Stanford; Parley Johnson, student at Harvard School, Los Angeles...
...three weeks, reduced his cigarets to two per day, cut out veal. It rained steadily. He stood the discipline for five days, then set out again on his gay travels. At Pilsen he inspected the brewery, emptied a row of steins in less than two minutes, begged someone to push him into a foamy vat. A delegation of actors met and praised him at Prague. An enthusiastic Czech presented him with a wire-haired fox terrier. When he reached Budapest he complained of writer's cramp from prodigal autographing. There he was given a bottle of 1827 tokay...
...have known, not only frightened the British cabinet but frightened the great house of Rothschild, whose wealth is as much in Great Britain as on the continent. Through their Paris and their London houses the Rothschilds exerted every pressure to stop the French run on British gold, to push through the Franco-U. S. credit to the Bank of England. But if Britons needed any further knowledge of their country's precarious finances it came at Westminster when on the day that Parliament adjourned the Government's Economy Commission, appointed last spring, presented its recommendations for an immediate...
From Berlin the Graf resumed flight (her 202nd) to Leningrad, thence pushed on toward the island of Novaya Zemlya, and Franz Josef Land, where philatelists' mail was to be exchanged with the Russian icebreaker Malygin. Unless further unknown land were sighted, Dr. Eckener did not intend to push farther north. There was only the remotest possibility that he would venture to the Pole. More likely was the tentative course east to Northern Land, south to Cape Chelyuskin and back to Archangel via the Siberian Coast. Approximate distance: 6,200 mi. Estimated flying time...
...furnace heats the base of one boiler-cylinder to 900° F. (688° above water's boiling point). The superheated water expands (but cannot change to steam because it is too closely confined) and pushes a piston at the far end of this cylinder. Cold water or air, applied against the piston end of the boiler, cools the confined water sufficiently to make it contract and suck the piston back to its original position. The external cold water or air is shut off, the cooled water in the boiler coils passes into the second cylinder, and newly heated...