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Still in keeping with the general policy the old steel smoke-stack which previously helped to decorate the side of University Hall, has finally been removed. Smokeless since 1914, when use of the boiler plant in the basement of the building was discontinued, it had, nevertheless, remained a part of the Yard's scenery until this summer...
...unpopular with the masses. With caviar for editorial fare, the buying power of its readers would be assured, and its advertising could be easily sold on this basis. Thus, Harold Ross's journalistic hand held a pair of aces at the start. To play it, he needed a tall stack of blue chips. Poker-player Fleischmann, weary of the baking business, gladly furnished them...
...slit) screaming to a halt at a blue plaster farmhouse known in the new Fascist reclamation project at Sabaudia as Podere (Farm ) No. 685. The black-shirted peasant homesteader on No. 685 who had won the Dictator's notice by begetting seven children, had neatly stacked good golden wheat in the front yard. A flag flapped atop the stack and a government threshing machine stood behind...
...Battle Force, followed by nine of the nation's 15 capital ships. New Mexico and Mississippi looked the most impressive with their modern, heavy forward fighting bridges. But the West Virginia, with outmoded masts like inverted wire-work waste baskets, sported a white E on her stack to show that she still surpassed all upstarts in her division in engineering efficiency. The show was over when the train, the "dungaree navy" came by, with the old Langley, the Navy's first carrier, closing the rear file with superannuated sauciness...
Pageant King Frank Barton, ex-Culver, ex-Princeton, ex-president of the Cotton Exchange, rose with some misgivings from his gaudy throne atop a stack of cotton bales. "Frank Barton's got on tights!" the crowd sniggered. "Bet he's cool all right. Now he helpin' the Queen off the boat." Across an excited margin of sloppy river water stepped Queen Octavia Evans. "Ain't she pretty? Niece of Boss Eddie Crump's right hand man. She's supposed to be the Queen of Egypt. That's Gretta Garbo's own dress...