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...rose point lace and cut with a court train. Her veil of tulle was held with orange blossoms and she carried a shower bouquet of white orchids and lilies of the valley." An amazing picture rose in the minds of the Tory breakfasters-that of a fashionable church, wall-eyed ushers, pretty bridesmaids, a young bridegroom of an excellent Washington family and, amid all the diaphaneity of lace and flowers so dewily described by the Times reporter, a bride who wheeled upon the shocked congregation a dusky face...
...strength is not required. The weight of this synthetic lumber is about that of the lighter woods, and it can be worked by regular woodworking tools. It has been found a successful substitute for even birch wood in making spools, as well as in making picture frames, moldings and wall boards...
While the plaintiffs have declared their intention of appealing, Wall Street considers the case virtually settled. The issue raised is important, and if the plaintiffs had been sustained, several other similar suits in other companies would probably have been quickly started...
What Sir Josiah Stamp*- forthe semi-bald one was he-meant was, that the U. S., which is more interested in German reparation than any nation in the world (the U. S. is the world's greatest creditor), should shatter her tariff wall and assist the depressed European nations to increase their exports. But, above all, creditor nations under the Experts' Plan should not press for German payments quicker than that trade policy permits. Further, he warned that creditor nations, including the U. S., might have to curtail production if the Plan is to succeed...
...year expedition to the Arctic. Eskimos are the actors. Here are reindeer without the Santa Claus; an eskimaid eski-mobiling behind some dogs through a 50-below zero blizzard; a full color reproduction of the aurora borealis. It might have been written with an ice-pick on the bleak wall of an igloo, but its impression of tiny men spinning their confused webs against the icy gulfs of immeasurable space registers effectively...