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Reading, Writing and 'Rithmetic. Arithmetic is not so bad, although I cannot multiply as fast as befits a teacher. But writing, my friends! Especially on blackboards! As I was putting some questions on the board, I heard one child whisper to another: "Gee, she writes terrible!" I agreed out...
Senator Burton K. Wheeler achieved the age of 64 in Washington, and, striking a preprandial birthday pose for photographers, achieved something more remarkable : simply staring at a quarter of buffalo he managed to look as if he were giving his brightest, politest attention to a talkative constituent (see cut).
¶ Bevin, a brown hulk between his Russian adversary and his American friend, Stettinius, staring down the line of his cigarette at the table, or when he spoke as no diplomat in his time had publicly spoken, revolving his great, unhandsome head as though it were a vocal beacon;
It had been a great night for nudging and staring. The 800 people in the Waldorf-Astoria's Grand Ballroom had paid $250 apiece for dinner, and taken a certain clinical interest in one another. An army of waiters had produced a series of gastronomic spectacles, from turtle soup...
When Klee died near Locarno, in 1940, some oldsters remembered the little boy who used to see faces in the veins of his grandfather's marble-top table. His students remembered how he used to lecture at Germany's famed Bauhaus, sitting hunched over, with his back to...