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Peaks of Destiny. So enormous are the powdered peaks of the Alps, so wild and casual the winds that sweep between them that the actions of people must seem in comparison fragile and inconsequent, even unreal. The people in this picture are mainly three; Diotina, a dancer, whose amorous flippancies...
To defend a woman, this character knocks a policeman down in the first scene, unwittingly killing him. He is jailed for five years, and spends the rest of the play's nine scenes fleeing his jailers and his destiny. He evades the jailers but cannot dodge himself; in the...
From England, Mr. Travis brought back ideas on golf course construction which are still visible in the celebrated Travis traps of the Garden City (L. I.) Golf Club, where he was for years the spare, silent, deliberate presiding genius. It was in one of his own bunkers, the cavernous one...
The new Johns-Manville president is Theodore F. Merseles, 63. He has been, successively and with much success, a railroader, bicycle maker, cloak and suit mail order man. In 1921, when the price slump had dragged Montgomery Ward & Co. (everything by mail, from engagement rings to fox-traps) into a...
The Significance. It is not unjust to imply that for Mrs. Wharton's characters the most dangerous weapon of destruction would be a paper cutter. They are fragile figures which resemble" those outlined in fashion magazines for the socially ambitious to cut out. The narrative, as usual in Mrs...