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...having a wife and two children, lost his job. He had been earning $37.50 a week as clerk in the accounting department of a manufactory. He had put $1,413 in the savings bank, so he was equipped for a short layoff, and he had bought his last suit (for $32.50, at a sale) just two months before. He went home in November to his by-the-year lease apartment, cheered up his wife, chaffed the children. But he began earnestly to look for another position...
...audiences are still marveling at the change come over her since Metropolitan days. She is white-haired now. For several years she was round and matronly but she has thinned down again. The voice is small, an instrument to treat carefully. But she wisely chooses only songs which suit it, sings them with dignity and restraint...
...much alone (from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego). To finance a trip to Alaska he once incorporated himself for $10,000, paid a 10% dividend. Last summer he painted a 6,400 sq. ft. canvas ceiling for the Dennis, Mass. "Cinema" (TIME, July 28). Last month he won his suit against Delaware & Hud son R. R. for resumption of passenger service between Ausable Forks (where he has a 200-acre farm) and Plattsburg, N. Y. Kent's reputation as one of the foremost U. S. artists has grown rapidly; his illustrations for these two books will not abate...
...result he cut her off with $1,000. Counsel for Mrs. Calvit announced: "If necessary, I will be prepared to show that 'Diamond Jim' Brady offered to settle $1,000,000 on Mrs. Calvit in the form of a trust fund if Lillian Russell had accepted his suit, but that instead she accepted Moore's word [that he would provide for her daughter] and became his wife...
...James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney; the suit brought against him by Timothy J. ("Big Tim") Mara, promoter, for 25% ($526,812) of Fisticuffer Tunney's earnings, in return for alleged service's of "fixing" politicians, publicity "build ups" et al. (TIME, Nov. 17). Next week Fisticuffer Tunney will defend a similar suit brought by Max ("Boo-Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia "fixer...