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...wages, builders lose some of their $7,000,000,000, through jurisdictional strikes between trade unions. Thus, many a job has been delayed while plasterers and cement workers argued as to where floors stopped and walls began; while carpenters challenged the right of metal workers to put up metallic window and door frames; while ordinary laborers denied to carpenters the privilege of tearing down their own temporary scaffoldings...
...figures represented are sibyls, emperors, and other figures; when the one remaining window to be set up is installed in about two weeks the set will be complete...
...many amateur titles, was the King, a role properly awarded him in recognition of his 20-year patronage of fancy skating and of the interest which makes him hurry out of his big house on Fifth Avenue with his skates under his arm whenever, from his drawing room window, he sees figures moving on the lakes in Central Park. Sonja Henie was the Princess, and it was she whom the spectators had come to see. In a gold costume, with the spotlight on her. she stood chained to the mast of a Viking ship; later she gave an exhibition...
...during long sleepy days when, if you were not playing pool at the smoke house, there was nothing to do but count the cars on Ohio Street, or go down to the station to watch the Spirit of St. Louis come in from New York, or lean against the window of Bards drug store, waiting for something to happen. He started a poolroom of his own, but found few customers. Moving to St. Louis, he opened another place, with metal tables in it, but the balls made such a noise whamming off the cushions that it got on his nerves...
...house keeper took the pigeons from the cats, and in return for them gave a slice of beef or mutton and milk to each cat. The pigeons were taken into a little side room, and after they had eaten some maize and drunk water, they flew out of the window none the worse for their handling by the cats. The fact was that neither cat liked to eat game with dirty, sooty feathers on it ; they preferred clean cooked meat." On Jan. 1, 1929, Sir Wallis contributed to the Conservative Evening Standard the obituary of Mike which became the basis...