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...through the winter months T. H. Brown's glass eye had functioned as well as could be expected. Last fortnight as he stepped from a well-heated house in Ranger, Tex., cold air struck his false eye, caused it to burst into a shower of pieces, pour tiny particles of glass over his face and into his one normal...
...Joseph Duveen had just bought the Gainsborough for a price that set a record for U. S. picture auctions. The painting, a large canvas into which the artist had put portraits of two of his daughters as well as a wagon, a team of horses and a broken shower of golden light, was indubitably the finest single piece offered in the sale of the collection that had belonged to the late steel tycoon, Elbert Henry Gary. The other 38 paintings raised the total price for the evening's auctioning to $1,154,650, the record* for a single sale...
...portrays dramatically--a la bare back and silver wig--a woman whose ruined life was brought about through her husband's indifference. A railroad wreck, gambling dens in full blast, interiors of choice Parisian restaurants, and sorrowful close-ups of Pola drenching her little girl with a shower of joyful tears at the end, make the picture very enjoyable for students leading suppressed lives and rebelling against the monotonous humdrum of Cambridge...
...afternoon usually starts with a cool shower. Later one goes into the little room, stretches out on a cot, and is soon bathed in sunshine. Beginners are usually allowed two or three minutes, while the veterans enjoy it for 15 or 20 minutes...
...shop, but there are also ancient elm trees that once sheltered a tougher tribe of Yankees. Arthur Gordon, a descendant, is the grand vizier of Berkenmeer. With an air of detached gentility, he saw to it that "the hay was got in from the golf links before a thunder shower, dances were run off with no deficit, horses were not frightened "by steamrollers. . . ." An ebullient Rotary had begun to suspect him of not being a big enough booster. But such heresy was momentarily dispelled after the World War when he invited the U. S. Government to fill his family-memorial...