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Come Out of the Kitchen?Ruth Chatterton usually plays straight comedy. But this is a musical version of one of her great successes...
...adulteration and misbranding are disappearing, although new and more subtle machinations have in part taken their places?but in general a U. S. man can eat himself into surfeit with less danger from false and filthy food, and 'drug himself out of the surfeit with less risk of repairing straight to his coffin than he could in the years before the Act was passed...
...This man Sproule" who is anything but a self-advertiser, is apparently getting results, quietly as he always does. He came to this country with an education, an affable disposition and ability that went straight to the mark. He began as a freight clerk on the Southern Pacific. In the course of 24 years of continuous service in the company he rose to the position of Traffic Manager. Then the Guggenheims, ever watchful for talent, secured him as traffic manager−member of the executive committee for the American Smelting and Refining Co. Then the Wells Fargo Express...
...possible that in Heaven, some day, Sasanoff may be welcomed by Benvenuto Cellini. ¶ Farewell calls-farewell for the Summer-were paid to the President by Ambassador Jusserand of France, and Senators McKinley, Spencer, Sterling, Cameron. ¶ The Washington baseball team, returning home with a string of nine straight victories, opened a double-header with Philadelphia before 30,000 fans. A few minutes after the first game began, Mr. Coolidge, with his wife and two sons, entered the Presidential box. It was terribly hot, but the Coolidges stayed to the end, standing in the lucky seventh and seeing the "Senators...
With the completion of the heavy term of the Supreme Court, all that awaited the very merry and beloved gentleman was rest, complete rest. His doctor forbade all divertisements in the haunts of men. He was bidden to go straight to his home at Murray Bay, near the Saguenay River, and there wait the Summer out. Sitting on the St. Lawrence, he must practice being healthy according to his dictum: "Oranges and discipline, that's the recipe...