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...production is a sketchy ship, the prow, stern and mast of which are quite naively carried on by the phantom sailors and slipped into place on the stage. Despite this transparency of presentation, a weirdly moving effect is achieved, even when a dead sailor puts his hand up to rock the mast in a storm...
...independent, anti-Socialist ticket against Nicholson, the Conservative, and Fenner Brockway, the Laborite. His campaign was a colorful whirlwind (TIME, March 24), described as "Churchill's circus." He aimed to bring out the large non-voting electorate to choose him in a rock-ribbed Conservative stronghold. He must split the Conservative vote to beat the Laborite whom he officially opposed, and he had the backing of so influential a Conservative as Lord Balfour...
When questioned as to the probable cause of the accident Mr. W. S. Burke, Inspector of the Grounds and Buildings, cited two possible reasons. "There might have been a seam in the rock, which was enlarged by the freezing of the water that soaked into it during the recent storm or the stone might have been a so-called, patched stone. When these patched stones are exposed to the weather, the mending material usually deteriorates and lets in the water, and in a very short time the stone is broken up. Defects of this kind, when near the ground...
...years Cursolo and Orasso, small villages, have engaged in litigation over the ownership of a large towering rock in the mountains, a claim to which neither has been willing to surrender. Following precedent established by some of the Great Powers, the villages decided to submit the case to arbitration...
...Simmons' expedition is financed by Mrs. Elizabeth B. 'Blossom, of Cleveland, for whom the schooner is named. He has chosen his personnel for specialist efficiency and general ability. It includes Robert H. Rock well, of the Brooklyn Institute Museum, taxidermist, who will mount groups of the island wild life; W. Kenneth Cuyler and Allen L. Moses, collectors, who will prepare the skins. Mr. Simmons himself will devote much time to the many rare and tropical birds - the sheerwater, gannet, booby, king and emperor penguins, jackass, manofwar, albatross, etc. Experienced navigators and sailors, all college men with scientific training...