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...footsteps. The barometer was 28.84. At 1 a.m. the wind blew 65 miles an hour. The barometer was 28.00. At 5:40 a.m. a screaming, slashing demoniacal 130-mile gale raged wilfully, lustily, triumphantly. The barometer was 27.75 (lowest ever recorded in the U. S.). Pelicans, gulls, petrels, royal terns swept in helplessly, crazily, were dashed against walls into broken lumps. The waters of the ocean on one side and of the Bay of Biscayne on the other swept over Bayshore Drive, met. People drowned like trapped puppies to the frivolous dirge of tinkling glass...
...Geraldine Farrar-also in Berlin last week. Though lacking even a shred of evidence, the Communist newspaper, Welt am Abend, not only recalled onetime famed innuendoes respecting the intimacy of Geraldine and Wilhelm (circa 1902) but even remarked: "It is a very peculiar fact that his former imperial and royal highness and the American singer Farrar, arrived on the same...
Intra-Atomic Energy. If matter could be sent out of existence and made to reappear as energy, unlimited power would be on tap. Instead of one royal phenomenon like radium, there would be a grand democracy of matter in which the homeliest substances would lie ready to perform potent miracles. It would be something for nothing with a vengeance. In his presidential address, Dr. James F. Norris of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Society's chief, dwelt upon this subject most optimistically. The initial energy required to alter atomic arrangements and in so doing release new energy...
Divorced. William Ziegler Jr., owner of the Hotel Belmont, Manhattan, son of the founder of the Royal Baking Powder Co.; by Mrs. Gladys V. Watson Ziegler, in Paris...
...brow. "I've not worn darned socks for years-I buy the very cheapest and whenever I see a hole in the toe, I throw them into the wastepaper basket." "You'll never do that again as long as you live," says Perella. Whereupon, the Fiat with royal purple flying whisks them off to Paris...