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...thousand soldiers wrapped in their grey capes roared. They expected to see famed Chris Cagle, the Army halfback, rush through the little men in front of him. Instead, whenever he took the ball, a flock of Notre Dame players started at him like birds which he could not brush away. In the second half it was not Cagle's brilliance but the slow rush of the whole team that brought the ball up the field for a touchdown; somehow Notre Dame struggled back again with it and scored six points to tie. Then at the end of the last...
First prize ($1,500 & gold medal) went to André Derain, a French modernist. His picture was a still-life of two dead game birds on a table, with a rifle beside them. Composition and brush work are sure; technique is deft...
...reaching out of the great central power to brush the doorsteps of local communities, far removed geographically and politically from Washington, will be irritating in such States and communities, and will be a strain upon the bond of the National Union. It will produce variation in the enforcement of the law. There will be loose administration in spots all over the United States and a politically inclined National Administration will be strongly tempted to acquiesce in such a condition. Elections will continuously turn on the rigid or languid execution of the Liquor Law, as they do now in Prohibition States...
...Cartoonist Charles Henry Sykes has been Life's political brush since 1922. Since 1911 he has drawn for the newspapers of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis...
...against hypocrisy."-James F. Lucas, Philadelphia paint-and-brush maker, longtime Republican. Similarly, Rudolph Spreckels, San Francisco banker, irregular Republican...