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Billy was drawing the window curtains apart and asking Dr. Watson if he wanted to see the people across the street who were watching them. "Watson had taken a step forward when the bedroom door opened, and the long, thin form of Holmes emerged, his face pale and drawn, but his step and bearing as active as ever. With a single spring he was at the window, and had drawn the blind once more...
...last moment threatening weather caused Queen Mary to remain snug at Buckingham Palace. The King, not so easily daunted, made a short excursion from London out to Newmarket. There, 170 miles fom Giggleswick, His Majesty rode out upon his horse at dawn and ruefully observed only a thin crescent of light in a cloudy sky at the moment of eclipse...
...class decorator, he knew he would see even finer things than tapestries at Mr. Lihme's. He knew that in the Lihme drawing-room was the $50,000 "Portrait of an Old Man" which Peter Paul Rubens painted some 300 years ago, a patrician subject whose disdainful brow, thin smile and scornfully intelligent eye must have been a relief to the painter after his usual run of exuberantly plump females and amorous burlies. On the west wall of the same room would be a large canvas by Rubens' sensitive pupil, Anthony van Dyck, showing the Marchesa Lommelini...
Thereafter, last week the correspondents hounded both admirals with questions about ships and eggshells, and drew from them practically infinite variations on this safe, discussible, amusing topic. Admiral Jones outdid his rival by declaring explosively, "Why the plates on some destroyers are so thin you could almost poke a finger through...
Chicago has 15 cab companies, 5,000 cabs. Competition is sharp, service perhaps the best in the country (Chicago is the mother city of Yellow Cabs). But Chicago cabbies fare thinly, they are so many. Samuel Insull might, on his record, be expected to thin out the cabby ranks, profit fatly by organizing adroitly, eliminate some of the risk that exists when too many cabbies are speeding and dodging to glean a living...