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...became an artist because I was weak," he explains. "Too thin. Too tall. Sick. Art is a profession for the weak...
Live and Learn. Presented by Michael Kallesser-who wrote One Man's Woman, Trial Marriage, Marriage on Approval- Live and Learn is a thin little wisp of domestic dramaturgy. If Frederick Manning ("a vagabond and a plunger") had not come to dine with Harold ("who has a pagan love for movement and color") and Mabel Fuller, along with Annette Roberts ("a gold digger on a legal holiday"), there would have been no elderberry wine. Had it not been for the elderberry wine, Harold would not have been drunk, Annette more drunk. Nor would Mabel have left home and Frederick...
...formation of ice. There the scientists were faced with the problem of composing an oil which would not only offer zero-adhesion, but would not be scrubbed away by the action of 100-mile winds and rain. Further to render the scrubbing action impossible, the oils are absorbed into thin sheets of vulcanized rubber which in turn exude the mixture...
Last week his younger brother, Headmaster Horace Dutton Taft of Taft School (Watertown, Conn.), a brother tall, thin and angular but full of the Taft good-humor, produced a private letter William Howard Taft had written just after Herbert Hoover's election, to Prof. Irving Fisher, Yale economist, militant dry. Headmaster Taft explained he was offering this evidence to offset all erroneous interpretations of his brother's position on Prohibition...
Last week came news of the smart lads of another Peck who really had landed in a State prison. They were the shamefaced inmates of Connecticut School for Boys (reformatory at Meriden) where James S. Peck is farm superintendent. Bad boys under 16 are confined under the thin pretense of a boarding school regime. Connecticut Schoolboys are not discharged but "graduated...