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...traveling and hotel expenses as I went," got as far as Japan, then lost the bet which started her journey by marrying. Sample of that trip: "I was wearing a solitaire diamond . . . slipping it off my finger I dropped it in my corsage . . . I announced : I have lost my ring.' . . . The next morning, imagine my surprise to find he had sent me around one of the loveliest solitaires I possess today." During the War, the book's index relates: "My house [in Paris] was the social head quarters of the U. S. A. High Command...
...have been a greater success had Vinsent Youmans provided a better score for the music in this production is woe fully weak. There are one or two pleasant exceptions to the musical mediocrity for instance "Be Good to Me" and the lyrics are really clever. The latter some by Ring Lardner, some by Clifford Grey and Havold Adamson the last of whom wrote the lyrics for the Hasty Pudding Show last spring are consistently good...
...when I, King Camp Gillette, was 40, I first thought of the safety razor." So, a decade ago, wrote the father of a great company, a great industry. The proud ring in his words was justified. His invention was no haphazard one. For years he had pondered the possibilities of finding some cheap article that would be used daily, and have a constant replacement demand. The growth of Gillette Safety Razor Co. had been fast and sure, accomplished out of earnings. Into all countries had gone packages of blades, carrying the dollar-proud face of King Camp Gillette. Last week...
...Poet Laureate is appropriately a book about an English ship: the steel four-masted barque Wanderer of Liverpool. The Wanderer has already appeared in enterprising Publisher Hearst's Cosmopolitan. Not all the book is poetry, but even Masefield's prose descriptions of his heroine have often the ring of verse...
...athletic building just completed last spring. There is a special room for boxing on the third floor where the team will practice, but the meets with other colleges will undoubtedly be held on the basket ball court on the fourth floor where wooden stands can be erected around the ring...