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...Physical Education Jesse Feiring Williams. He stretched out one arm and twitched it a little. He wiggled his fingers. The like did he do to his other arm and hand, to his legs, feet and toes. Dexterously he rocked his hips, arched his back, rolled his head. Then a swift bathing, a brisk toweling, a fastidious dressing, a precise breakfasting, a quick walking across the streets to teach physical education to Columbia's aspirant educators, and a welling wanting to say something for publication...
Aeromarine, Klemm, Alliance, American Eagle, Arrow, Bellanca, Berliner-Joyce, Boeing, Cessna, Chance Vought, Command-Aire, Curtiss, Fokker, Great Lakes, Hamilton, Knoll, Lincoln, Mahoney-Ryan, Mohawk, Moth, Parks, Pitcairn, Simplex, Spartan, Stearman, Swallow, Swift, Travel Air, Whittlesey...
...Swift to follow up his advantage. General Almazan pressed forward with his cavalry, caught up with the fleeing rebels at the broken railway bridge of La Reforma. Here was "the bloodiest hour." Federal bands of Indian cavalry swept down on the rebel trains from both sides. Aviators bombed the trains repeatedly. Over 1,000 were killed in the slaughter, and after the remnant of the rebels had escaped, the dead were piled on freight cars like logs...
...Admirals. But there are female torsos by Alexander Archipenko, possessor of an arresting linear imagination; there are Allan Clark's glamorous oriental shapes; Harriet Whitney Frishmuth's tender and charming studies of adolescence; Jacob Epstein's mottled, vigorous countenances; Paul Manship's images of swift, hound-escorted Diana and Actacon. Many are the stimuli for the senses, but nowhere is the mind so provoked and fascinated as before the portrait sculpture of Jo Davidson. Master of men and millions, the face of John Davison Rockefeller is anxious, unbelievably seamed above his sparse and fragile body. Mistress...
...editors, one was stocky Ray Long, whose April Cosmopolitan appeared early in March galvanized by a Coolidge-penned story, swift, personal, moving. The other was Loring Ashley Schuler, whose April Ladies' Home Journal also carrying a Coolidge-penned story appeared only last week. The Schuler-Coolidge story was, of course, dulled because antedated by the Long-Collidge story. But what really killed the Schuler story was Author Coolidge himself. In the Cosmopolitan he was dynamic, in the Ladies' Home Journal he was tedious, general, rambling...