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...Long Island as a wealthy young parvenu from the midwestern oilfields. It is not 30 years since he was the son of a village druggist in Kansas, a son who, when his father died, lacked the patience to keep the little business going. One day he came in from rabbit-hunting with a wound in his foot. He had shot himself. An insurance company paid him $5,000 for the loss of a toe. Something told him where to put the money; not into the drug business, but into "mud sills," the big logs men were using then in Kansas...
...Behavior of Mrs. Crane. It is perhaps as trying for an actor as it is for his audience to know that his appearance on the stage will immediately set the hearts of all its other occupants going lippity-lippity-lip, like Peter Rabbit, with love and excitement. If so, the quietly presentable John Marston has indeed been sorely tried this winter. In Behold, the Bridegroom, one taste of his fatal fascination had the effect of arsenic upon the heroine. Now, in The Behavior of Mrs. Crane, a polite comedy by one Harry Segall, he is called upon...
...took unto himself a pen and signed a new trade treaty with Italy, made necessary by the recent French tariff increases (TIME, March 12). France concedes to Italy lower duties on buttons, canned tomatoes, fruits, ventilators and women's hats, etc.; while Italy grants reductions on rabbit skins, precious stones, carpets, cheese...
...speeding about 150,000 miles a second (four-fifths the speed of light). As beta and gamma rays, similar to the offshoots from radium, they turned acetylene gas into a yellow powder such as scientists never before had seen. They made minerals fluoresce, killed bacteria and insects, burned a rabbit's ears (TIME...
There is also in the collection a few impromptu poems and drawings which Vachel Lindsay gave to Miss Lowell. One poem, especially, entitled "Sunrise on Easter Day," is illustrated with pen and ink sketches of a rabbit. In the drawings the letters AMY LOWELL are found as in a puzzle...