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Senator Samuel M. Ralston of Indiana received a bit of modest commendation from Tom Taggart, Democratic boss of his state...
...hearts are so stricken by boundless grief, just because we all had the good fortune to be contemporaries of Lenin. . . . Our party is the collective leader of the workers. In each of us lives a little bit of Lenin...
...fiction is a bit difficult to categorize. Its entire freedom from the plot-and-story complex will puzzle a few, but its artistic handling will please more. Mr. Smart, for example, writes merely a series of biographical anecdotes and analyses which he labels a "Pilgrimage"; but his rich and nicely turned style leaves the reader with no desire for dramatic ingenuity. It seems to me that Mr. Smart might some time try his hand at actual rather than fictitious literary criticism with decided success; the Advocate could do very well with something of the sort. Mr. Edmonds, in his "Lilace...
...enforced study destroys the "sweetness and light" of this ancient learning. It might prove Cassandra-like to herald a revival of the Viscount's assertion that "the case for making Latin the normal groundwork of a liberal education is overwhelming" is no longer resented as an unwarranted bit of pedagogy...
...Andrew Jackson for tackle-tall, rangy and muscular-the ideal build for that place in the line-a rough and dangerous player, a terror to his opponents, quick on his feet and down the field under punts ahead of the ends. Then there is Theodore Roosevelt for fullback, a bit showy and an individualist, but he bucks the line with the best of them. Highly versatile, he also runs around end well and can drop a goal from the field from the forty-five yard line. "Hit 'em where they ain't," he says, borrowing his motto from...