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Even if mechanical ingenuity can patch up this patriarch of the desert, a projecting wall will have to be built around the figure, according to Arthur Woodley. American civil engineer A caged Sphinx whose head is held on by bars of Birmingham iron can scarcely be expected to personify the wisdom and mystery of the East...
...rejuvenate the impressive stone figure with metal monkey glands from the Occident is little short of sacrilege From the romantic point of view, to let the blown sand destroy that impassive face, which has looked over the desert for centuries is better than to imprison of within a wall. The Sphinx should meet its fate unblindfolded...
...delight. Once the great gathering sucked in its breath and stood up in its seats with the shivering "Ah!" that fevers a plaza de toros when the matador is tossed. This was when Vadabelle, ridden by Dick Messcrop of Port Chester, N. Y., in taking the five-foot wall at the edge of the tanbark instead of the last jump on the course, went sprawling into a group of spectators, knocking them down like dolls. But no one was hurt; Vadabelle went back to her stall. Otto W. Lehmann's Princess Mary went jingling around with a fine gait...
Died. The Rev. William Wilkinson, 77, famed and beloved missioner attached to Trinity Church, Manhattan, hailed by the throngs who crowded to his daily curbside services as "Bishop of Wall Street"; at Manhattan, of pneumonia...
...recent "bull market" in shares on the Stock Exchange has been unequaled in its duration, its volume of trading, and perhaps in the extent of its price advances. Yet to a less extent than ever before can the market be attributed simply to "Wall Street." Investors and traders all over the U. S. have taken part in it. This is shown by the present extent of the private wire-systems of Stock Exchange firms...