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...their own true light. Coolidge the President, Coolidge the "strong silent man," of the White House, Coolidge the Sphinx become a critic of fashion! It doubtless took all of that sophisticated air so carefully nurtured in Old Nassau to keep the jaws of the three Princeton men from gaping wide when President Coolidge objected to the cut and width of their trousers...
...Married Men. In one brilliant burst of writing, Vincent Lawrence has sliced wide for inspection a bitter, all too prevalent tragedy. For no reason at all except that they are five years married and that she loves suddenly another man, a wife tires of her husband. This she must tell him, hating herself therefor, yet powerless before the fact. Tomorrow she will run away...
...Belgium to the sea. He opened the locks. Into the flat country flowed the water; within 48 hours the ground was spongy, soon it was a marsh in which German soldiers struggled with plunging horses, foundering field-pieces. Gradually the water rose, until it became a lake two miles wide, barring off the Germans from Nieuport to Dixmude. The Belgian army, which had been retreating in disorder, had time to remarshall; Geeraert was credited, doubtless justly, with having helped to save it from destruction. Last Christmas Day, when he seemed at the point of death, he was decorated with...
...service has been a huge one. Fortunately, the Company has enjoyed far-sighted management and excellent credit. As a result, the capitalization of the Company has been steadily increased through sales of its securities to the public. After a campaign designed to sell stock to telephone subscribers, such wide distribution of A. T. & T. shares has been obtained that the company's stockholders now number 300,000. This is the largest shareholders' list in the world; if all the company's share-partners lived in one city, the latter would rank 20th in population...
...charter issued to the Company, still preserved in London, presented it with about a third of modern Canada. During the next 200 years, the "Company of Merchant Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay" conducted a government and operated trading posts over an area 1,000 miles wide by 3,000 miles long. The company's earliest business consisted in purchasing furs from the Indians, and selling them in Europe at large profits. Later, when Canada began to be settled, the Company took to selling parts of its enormous land holdings to colonists. In 1871 it surrendered...