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...their dramas with such matter-of-fact simplicity. In this case, it is a story of four maiden sisters of the heavily-upholstered convention-corseted '90s. Two of them have secretly wed the same rascal. One is recognized as wife; the other bears a bastard son. This black thread in their life's pattern is accompanied by the incessant nagging of the wizened humpbacked sister. In the spinsters' parlor-desert their scandal festers almost to the end. The dreariness of their tragedy is incongruously shattered by Marie Carroll, who, as the worm-eaten, twisted sister, insists upon...
...lower middle column, speaking of the Moffat road (Denver & Salt Lake), you say: "To climb James Peak and thread a pass 11,660 ft. high, his tracks had to climb 30 miles up 4% grades. ... It was . . . and is ... the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world...
...through. The desirability of sending trains under rather than over the Continental Divide at that point was first discovered by a Denver banker, David Halliday Moffat, after he had spent a fortune building and trying to operate the Denver & Salt Lake R. R. To climb James Peak and thread a pass 11,660 ft. high, his tracks had to climb 30 miles up 4% grades, describing in 23 miles curves totaling 28 full circles. It was-and is-the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world, far above timberline. It takes four locomotives to haul a 22-car train over...
...tribe. For, last he is, the last grown-up at least. His son dies as a boy; we accompany him to school, suffer with him the heartaches and the thousand natural shocks that he is heir to. But the first serious attack on Hanno's health severs the thin thread that holds him to life...
...affair with Dexter Manford. The rest of the characters are so implicitly concerned in one another's actions, each is so much a pillar in the last year of the 19th Century, separate catastrophe would be impossible. Total catastrophe trembles above them like a paper cutter on a thread when Dexter Manford arranges things so that he can, without Jim, have Lita as a guest in his country home. A triviality twists the weapon as it falls. Nona's arm is grazed, but her parents, unhurt, set out to tour the world. Lita goes back...