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...myth that says Capital is an angel with a flaming sword who keeps Labor out of Eden really means that capitalists are a sharp and greedy lot who fool the laborers...
...only in the financial firmament is Samuel Insull a fallen angel. Last week the trustees of the Chicago Opera met for 15 minutes to accept his resignation from their number. Then they announced "definitely but reluctantly" that there would be no Chicago Opera next season. What was needed, they frankly said, was what he had been, a "magnificent angel." Nearest man that Chicago could think of was Banker Charles Gates Dawes who, since his return from England this year and from Reconstruction Finance Corp. in Washington last month, has been thought of by Chicagoans for all sorts of jobs, right...
...snakes from old Erin, howling "Faugh-a-ballaugh!" On what is now Ireland's Holy Hill he spent 40 days, heckled by demons in the form of hideous birds of prey which he finally scattered by ringing his bell. Then, like Jacob, he wrestled with a visiting angel, extracting five concessions. The last one St. Patrick judged the nicest: on Judgment Day he would be deputized to judge the whole Irish race. A large court he will need; several years ago it was calculated there were 100 million persons of Irish blood in the world. St. Patrick died March...
Eleven men from six schools took this year's examination on Monday at their respective schools. Those who took the examination are: W. M. Higgins, Jr. and W. S. White, of Exeter; R. S. Playfair and H. S. Palmer, of Roxbury Latin; J. L. Angel, of Choate; Ralph Lazzaro, of Andover; W. H. Lee and Edward Motley, Jr., of Groton; and W. I. Gray, J. W. Flavin, S. J. Freedberg, L. E. Sweeney, and J. J. Sullivan, of Boston Latin...
...Harvard, but no one else who could reveal more by a roguish shrug, by an ironically poised understatement, than a volume with footnotes. Castlereagh and Talleyrand, ravelling and unravelling the maze at Vienna, the first Napoleon and the third, playing with the bright counters of empire, Victoria with her angel and Bismarck with the door-knob in his hand;--we have hear about them often, but only known them once. We shall hear about them again, but nevertheless they are going. And for this the Vagabond laments...