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...that fellow with the large chest and ruddy face looking straight before him in the midst of that admiring group? He is smiling and blushing. Probably someone has just suggested that he will be the next President. That is Nick Longworth, the Speaker. He and his cronies run the House by dint of goodwill and numbers -because, you see, politics in the House isn't half so individualistic as in the Senate. Everybody likes Nick. He is the likable boss, although that lean stiff man, Tilson of Connecticut, bears the formal title of Republican leader. The impressive...
...Britain (1919-22) he was revealed as a sphynx possessed of corroding scorn and a face so immobile as to suggest paralysis. To round out the quatrefoil of his quadruped characteristics, the Earl of Birkenhead habitually walks with a sodden heavy stride, his hands held dangling before his chest like the paws of a performing bear. But when he rises in public debate or sits down to a private tete-a-tete, he reveals the brilliance and supreme persuasive power which have often made Conservatives favor him for the post of Premier. As everyone knows, he is Secretary of State...
...What Bishop contributed $1,100 to the hope chest of a new magazine...
Five feet ten inches he stands in his naked feet. Normal, his chest stretches the tape 44 inches; expanded, 49. Waist 31, thigh 24, calf 16½, ankle 8, neck 18, biceps 16½, reach 74?complete his description, except for the ineffable, the ineluctable, the sublime beauty of his face. His name is William Wright of Dustan Corner, Me. His nameless face and figure are in the marble, the bronze, the oils of Barnard, MacMonnies, Manship, Sargent...
Pneumonia Antitoxin. An antitoxin possibly efficacious against the four types of pneumonia** has just been devised. If the symptoms (sharp pains in chest, chills, temperature rise, coughing) are quickly heeded and this new antitoxin given within 48 hours, then the prognosis seems good. The reporters...