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...first night of festivities the famous coronation of the Queen of the Carnival is held. A large castle is erected on the golf course. Beneath it is the specially-made figure-skating rink, where an exhibition later takes place. Fireworks of all descriptions are exploded, and with a background of white snow the effect is one of unrivalled beauty. Then follows the storming of the castle by King Winter and his court of skiers and the ceremonies of the evening swing under...
...cleaner," said Joseph B. Ely, Governor of Massachusetts in an interview last night. "Politics and the administration of city, state, and national government need the foresight and culture that the college man will carry to them. The college man has had the best advantages of education, and with that background his ability to understand public questions should be greatly increased. It is this understanding, culture, and sense of fair play that the college bestows upon a man that, when taken into political life, will render politics a cleaner institution in our civilization...
...Priest." In 1905, after a muleback campaign, he was elected county prosecutor. Four years later he successfully campaigned on horseback for a county judgeship. A horse & buggy carried him around on his winning canvass for the House of Representatives in 1912. Though he had risen measurably from his hillbilly background, there was about him nothing of the traditional "Kentucky colonel.'' He remained a plain simple man with no pretense of aristocracy...
...Republicans constantly on the defensive, force the fighting. William Gibbs McAdoo who pulled the Roosevelt nomination out of William Randolph Hearst's hat at Chicago ostentatiously joined the Governor's party as it entered California, planted himself close to the nominee as friend and counselor. Hovering in the California background were Publishers Hearst and Bernarr Macfadden whose newspaper and magazine support has notably helped Governor Roosevelt to reach his "forgotten...
...them in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and the Lay of the Last Minstrel while galloping about in cavalry maneuvers. With The Lady of the Lake Scott became a national figure; the Scottish duty on post-horses was raised when tourists began flocking to see its authentic background. Scott had a shrewd publisher in famed Constable, but they quarreled and Scott set up his old schoolmate James Ballantyne and his brother in a rival house. Soon Scott began publishing anonymously the successful "Waverley Novels." Even the Prince Regent could not induce "The Wizard of the North" to drop...