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After putting on a play with a considerable amount of delicate charm, the Boston Stock Company pursues this week a higher and more widely popular vein, "Rolling Home" is just another comedy that will make people laugh if they are in the right mood for laughter, and will bore them if they are feeling tired. Such things as "Rolling Home" are written because most audiences crave amusement--they want to do their weeping somewhere else...
...Wise said. "It is a most unfortunate thing that the Jews and Christians have become so separated during the ages and that so great a misunderstanding has grown up between them. The Christians are apt to think only of the Jews who crucified Christ, not the Jews who bore him and trained him, and gave him his religion. The Jews and Christians will never unite and lose their individual religions, but it is most necessary that they co-operate with each other since their religions are so closely allied...
...little professional jealousies. The pox turned out chicken, not small, and left raillery behind it. So again he cleared out, seeking his chance with a very modern, very shrewd private clinic in Chicago. Such clinics deal in fads, however, not in facts. He was sidetracked again - until his research bore fruit in an appointment to McGurk Institute, Manhattan. The good angel was old Gottlieb...
...18th Century slave trade. The tale is David Scott's, told in his own burred words. A young Scotch Jacobite, he fell in with the dark traffic upon escaping from penal indenture in Virginia. The evils of that traffic, the crime of the hideous Middle Passage, bore heavy on his Scotch conscience...
...Supreme Court filed in, all wearing black satin skull caps, except Justice McReynolds, whose bald pate, unprotected, bore the chilly breeze. Sixteen years before, at that time and place, a heavy blizzard was blowing; slush was ankle deep. On that occasion, Chief Justice Taft, now about to administer the oath of Office to the President, had taken that same oath himself, but in the Senate Chamber. The Cabinet, including Mr. Hughes, retired, appeared in their silk hats. The new Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Jardine, was with them; in the fortunes of the day, a dent had been stove...