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Clarence Duncan Chamberlain, New York-to-Berlin flyer, started on a lecture tour of the southern states in a Sperry-Messenger plane last week. He did the first lap through a snowstorm, and will do 5,000 miles in five weeks. His plane has a 26-foot wingspread...
There are four moments upon which the focus of the story falls: the snowstorm in which, after an accident to her sleigh, Anna meets Count Vronsky; the steeplechase in which he rides with the gay officers of his regiment; the moment when Anna Karenina, after she has gone away with her lover, creeps into the bedroom where her son is asleep; and the moment when, a vague figure in veils, she vanishes as silently as a bird's wing in the brightness of a locomotive's headlight...
...visited his sister, Mrs. Thomas Arnold (Ernestina) Robinson, in Manhattan, on his way to New York Military School. When newsgatherers called to see him, he locked himself in the bathroom. Mrs. Robinson sighed: "He is such a rebel!" Mrs. Robinson told how Alfredo disliked automobiles, wanted to see a snowstorm, was fascinated by the subway...
Enchantment. Here the situation concerns a group of people stranded during a snowstorm in a country home. They all make believe they are lords and ladies, except the real lords and ladies, who make believe they are servants. Dull...
...bidders went home and slept and came back again through a raging snowstorm. Partridge of London, pressed closely by Henry Symons, Manhattan dealer, appeared to have no bottom to his purse. Was it truly the King's gold that he was spending? Dealers thought not, but the rumor persisted. S. D. Bowers, a collector, bought two satinwood commodes for $11,600. On the third day Mr. Partridge again paid the highest price?$16,000?for a pair of Adam bookcases, heirlooms of the Chesterfield family. English and American bidders worked against each other as if the sale had been...