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...dealing with anthracite must be similarly superimposed upon the bituminous industry. Such a contingency would be decidedly embarrassing to such friends of Mr. Hammond as the Pittsburgh Coal Company, the Consolidation Coal Company, the Bethlehem Mines Corporation and the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway coal interests, all of which have torn up their agreements with the United Mine Workers of America with the same abandon that William the Absolute destroyed the treaty which protected the neutrality of Belgium. Mr. Hammond, by his vain mutterings, has brought the present controversy into the realm of political equations. By the same token...
...along this country has held the heavyweight championship in office buildings. Manhattan at first took the lead with the historic Mills building (soon to be torn down) and kept it with the subsequent erection of other skyscrapers, including the Woolworth and Equitable Buildings. The latter is at present Manhattan's most spacious office structure. It contains 1,236,000 square feet of office space...
...bear gave a grunt of ecstatic delight and lumbered off full speed after the first. The ball gave a dying flop and settled in a rut. The first bear fell over it and the second bear fell over the first. Then began a battle for the ball which was "torn to shreds...
...some gentleman who had contemplated inviting Mr. Boyd to dinner, has a decidedly complimentary turn, and is reproduced on the dust-jacket of this 490-page novel of the American Revolution concerning the adventures of John Fraser : how his father was a Tory, his lady a revolutionist ; how he, torn between two personal voices and not particularly concerned with the wider issues of his country's dilemma, went to England, France, Scotland, looking for a fence to sit on ; how he heard men declaim in taverns and ordinaries, breaking their clay pipes with the passion of their rhetoric...
Lost-A Wife. Greta Nissen, out of Norway, brings to view her wild blonde hair and perfect poise. Torn from her own engagement party by "Bet-a-Thousand Tony" (Adolph Menjou), she marries him and as instantly loses him to the superior passion of gambling. She rebels, divorces, regains him. She is, in short, victorious over both the audience and her husband...