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...mainly by abolitionists. Perhaps the same temperament produces the abolitionist and the prohibitionist. At any rate, it is only natural that a state born in such a crisis should be stamped with a seriousness of purpose from the beginning. Nature seems to have fostered this Puritanical seriousness with the bleak and dismal plains which cover much of the state, with nothing in the way of trees, hills or lakes from horizon to horizon to add frills to a severely simple landscape. At any rate, Kansas is a state where the spirit of blue laws is strong...
Sooner than the world expected (TIME, Dec. 28), on a bleak December day within a fortnight of his elevation, His Eminence Bonaventura Cardinal Cerretti, papal nuncio at Paris, got his red hat, his galerum rubrum, got it without the fanfare and spectacle so influential on the French...
...Thirty Years Among the Labrador Fishermen" will be Dr. Grenfell's subject when he speaks on December 16. Dr. Grenfell, who received an honorary degree of Master of Arts from the University in 1909, has worked for many years in the bleak fishing towns of Labrador and northern Newfoundland coasts. An Englishman by birth, he attended London and Oxford Universities, and started his career as a medical missionary in 1887. Many Harvard students have spent summers working with the Grenfell Mission...
Last week Death, enemy of elegance, marched up the dark oak stairs of a house in Grosvenor Square, London, and snuffed out the breath of an old gentleman who lay in bed there, his bleak face upturned to the ceiling. Next day The New York Times published his picture: "Lord Ribblesdale, husband of the late John Jacob Aster's first wife, who died yesterday...
Suddenly a telephone rang in the judges' stand, a stammering voice said that there had been an accident. The crowd took up the rumor, as crowds will; people excitedly told each other that all 16 had crashed down together on the bleak Hempstead Moors and that all the pilots were dead. Pilot Basil Rowe, flying a Thomas Morse 54E plane with an Aero- marine motor, contradicted this extravagance by buzzing in a winner with an average speed of 102.9 miles an hour; Pilot W. L. Gilmore, in another Morse, was second; one of the 16 did not return...