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...German Monarchist press burst into one unanimous roar of anguish, Herr Stresemann demurely stated: "I am leaving with my wife and sons for two weeks of quiet in Switzerland, which will include a visit to Locarno...
...color as the Mississippi in the old days, should be dull. For a gambler's anecdotes to be flat it is unforgiveable. Every now and then some life breaks through the crust of monotonous, disorganized narative--it is impossible to pass soberly by the time when the boiler burst and killed fourteen preachers, while the only people saved on the boat were the abandoned souls who were playing roulette in the barber shop under Mr. Devol's chaperonage. But one seldom meets anything else to match this. It is a crime against the gods of high romance for so matchless...
...Docteur Adolphe Pinard, Professeur a la Faculté de Médecine, Membre de l'Academie de Médecine, Officier de la Legion d' Honneur, Dean of the Chamber, arose and literally diverted his peers with a baby's "comforter." Said he in a fine burst of oratory: "For two years-two years!- have striven for the opportunity which is now mine. During that time and for years previously many of the infants of France have teethed upon a vile form of rubber nipple attached to a ring. In short upon a sucette...
Northwestern University's enormous Patten Gymnasium resounded shrilly with high school cheers. It was the national interscholastic track championships. When the high hurdles were strung out for the 60-yard race, a dusky shadow whisked over them during the heats, and burst the red yarn first in a fleet final. The same shadow flitted through the low hurdles, placed second. Then it took second pace in the high jump and was hero of the meet. This shadow was Runner Loving of Cass Technical High School, Detroit. His teammate, Runner Talan, also a Negro, rushed in second...
...bringing light and leisure to the worker has been crowned with success, four sessions of Sunday school represent the sum of her incursion into the subtleties of dogma. And like her Brooklyn prototype her educational progress has been but mediocre. But then, as Carlyle once remarked in a burst of etymological exaltation, the word "vates" once meant both "prophet" and "poet", and the ways of each are equally inscrutable to the average...