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...they have come as a result of a genius for understanding the public mind, an acquired ability to write, an unusual executive sense, and a gift for fortune-luck if you like. This luck of Mrs. Rinehart's is not a myth. Shooting, she will bring down a bird on the wing-to her own surprise; fishing, she will be the only one to make a catch...
...reading of books--nothing but "a weariness of the flesh", he can return home with at least one interesting experience behind him--more than can be said of the unsuccessful bond salesman or even of the unsuccessful minister. In any case he will learn that the cassowary bird, unimportant in the constitution of the world; while the foreign country is something more than a name on one of Mercatur's Projections...
...with one possible and doubtful exception in the United States. There was J. A. Moore, 'The Magazine King'; also Ochs, who owns The New York Times, and is constantly hiring more warehouses to hold his money; and Wiley, who goes everywhere that Ochs goes, like the little bird that accompanies the rhinoceros, and warns it. Otto H. Kahn was there. His specialties are money and music, with a little extra pressure on the money pedal. Also Melville Stone, who joined the 'Why Did I Do It Club' when he sold the Chicago News to Lawson."-Arthur...
...full glory of ancient pomp Caliph Abdul Medjid crossed the Bosporus in a fourteen-oared caïque painted with a frieze of flowers and arabesques, its carved gilt prow sur- mounted by a silver image of a strange bird. The occasion was the first Selamlik-official service at a mosque-held in Scutari (opposite Constantinople) by the Caliph...
Secretary of State Hughes: "When someone mentioned 'vacation' to me I said: ' I have not thought of summer, nor even of spring. I have not heard the twitter of a bird...