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...lean, rather handsome young Irishman, his face prematurely stern and sad, set out last week from his home at Black Rock, near Dublin, to attend mid-day mass. He walked alone and swiftly, scuffing up tiny clouds of earth from the road. His wife or his baby daughter may have been in his mind; or perhaps young Kevin O'Higgins was pondering some one of his problems as Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. At 34, he had climbed higher than most politicians are content to find themselves at 64. The noon sun poured down, hot and germinal...
Captain Salvation (Lars Hanson). New England of 1840 had small sympathy for erring women. When one of them (Pauline Starke) is shipwrecked on their rock-bound coast, the rock-ribbed natives cast her out. Only the young minister (Lars Hanson) stands by her. Together they take refuge on a convict ship, where after ghoulish adventures with the villain captain (Ernest Torrence), they come upon placid seas of matrimony...
...clink. Armour had made 301. Next day, in the play-off of the tie, Armour again came from behind to complete the round in 76, while Cooper slashed for a 79. A spectator's body prevented one of Armour's mashie shots from going into some rock-ribbed tall grass. Open Champion Armour was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 32 years ago. During the War he served in the tank corps, emerging with a partly paralyzed left arm. Distinguished in Great Britain as an amateur golfer, he did not turn professional until after coming...
...Mining Geology, from the Shaler Memorial Fund to aid his research work in the mines of Africa next year was announced yesterday. Professor Graton has previously been granted a Sabbatical for the year 1927-28 and backed by the Bureau of International Research has formed plans to study rock and ore formations in the world's deepest mines which are to be found in Brazil, South Africa, and South India...
...that has been the great staple of U. S. currency. Even the most modestly salaried individual can "flash a roll" of ones. Homely, democratic, sanctified by custom, the one-dollar bill has been taken to the U. S. bosom, lovingly christened "bean," "buck," "berry," "simoleon," "iron man," "smacker," "plunk," "rock," "kelp" (always in the plural which employs no "s"; e. g. "14 kelp."). Meanwhile the Treasury Department has found itself faced with a printing bill of millions of dollars yearly. It was costing money to make money...