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...political fame followed his election as Attorney General of Illinois in 1867. His oratorical prowess became nationally known when he arose to nominate James G. Blaine at the Republican presidential convention of 1876. Thereafter his career became a succession of orations on politics and Tom Paine's brand of godlessness-a succession of vermilion episodes, epigrams, epistles...
...Carl Van Vechten's "Peter Whiffle", there is an incidental character, a young dillentante of the American brand so often found in Paris, who has a theory upon which he intends to found the literature of tomorrow. He believes that our life is passed in a world of things, everywhere are things, things. And so having collected catalogues of all descriptions,--of perfumes, automobiles, furniture, cigarettes,--with the aid of a few characters he will piece together this data, and that will be the great novel...
Revived with gasoline, the Columbia set out for Berlin where a gigantic welcome was in store. But fortune decreed an unromantic end. Off the course, lost in a fog, developing engine trouble-due perhaps to the new brand of gasoline-the Columbia smashed its propeller while making a forced landing in a muddy field near Kottbus, 70 miles southwest of Berlin. To Chamberlin and Levine, the good burgomaster of Kottbus offered beer...
...Harvard tennis team next spring. He will succeed his brother J. F. W. Whitbeck '27. The new Crimson net leader has been playing number 4 on the team this spring and although he is not the equal of his brother on the court, he has displayed an excellent brand of tennis in his matches this spring...
...Italie," Poet D'Annunzio makes an impassioned gesture towards King Vittorio Emanuele. Mussolini is not present. Russia, Rumania and Japan are grouped together, a Bolshevik stealing toward them with a flaming brand...