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...best parliamentarians and fighting men. Our former leader, Mondell, will not be with us, nor will Fess, nor Campbell, nor Walsh, nor Stafford, nor Greene, nor Kelley, nor Fordney, nor Reavis, nor?the peer of them all?the late James R. Mann. These were the men who bore the brunt of every battle, and their places will be difficult indeed to fill...
...metamorphosis to a labor paper, it changed its name from The Call to The Leader and came out with all the usual newspaper features except financial news-instead it carried "Labor News." Across its heading it bore the legend: " Not a millionaire's property-owned by 300,000 workers." As a newspaper it " had its points." It had a columnist reputed to be the best punster in Manhattan. But its editorial policy was radical...
Stokes fighting with back to wall . . . prepared like Samson, to bring down the very temple of his own home, if beneath the ruins, he can crush the woman who bore him two children and was then tossed away like worm-eaten fruit...
...pallidly esthetic son of the house seduced her?she gave him the inspiration for his one great poem. Then he got engaged to a girl of his own class who had a head like a beautiful egg, and forgot Bertha. Bertha moved on?she was always moving on. She bore a son to Rollo?a son who was adopted at the age of two weeks or so by the Bixbys of Detroit. As soon as she was well, Bertha took service with the Musliners?and, after solving a critical domestic difficulty for them, moved on again?this time...
...employment-an early age-he went to work for his brother, Nazareth, a shoemaker. But Antonio became only an indifferent cobbler. He learned to sole a shoe only passably, and regarded the putting on of O'Sullivan and Cat's Paw heels a sad bore. He had a great passion for Caruso records, and at times when he should have been hammering and stitching he cranked a phonograph and listened, rapt. At his work he always sang...