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...they are called, said: "These children certainly are worth saving. Generally of a high-strung, nervous temperament, and rather emotional, their blood characteristics appear very prominently. They have initiative and imagination, which are wholly lacking in the native. You never mistake them. Their light hair, blue eyes, and clean-cut American features are too evident. The girls,, i if educated, are particularly sought as wives by ambitious and self-respecting men. They boys, if properly brought up, should become leaders of the Filipino people...
...should be able to provide something more dependable than the unsupported say-so of some individual editor who remains anonymous. To brand a course as worthless, or an instructor as incompetent, on the testimony of one student among several hundred is hardly in accord with the amenities of clean journalism or true sportsmanship...
Widely heralded as a "clean play",--perhaps too widely for its own good--"Seventh Heaven" came to the Tremont Monday night, and before two distinguished guests-of-honor, Lieutenant-Governor Allen and Mayor Curley, well-known apostles of a clean drama, achieved a very considerable triumph. Producer John Golden was there, and after his leading lady, Ann Forrest, had taken several curtain calls at the close of the second act, consented to speak. He outlined his views on stage purity, complimented Boston for its support of the cause, and ended by calling on Mayor Curley to rise and bow from...
...Boss Brennan's followers met on a great hillside pasture, but the fireworks failed to materialize. Mr. Smith said it was too much to expect states to reduce their expenses as much as the Federal Government had done, because the states had no war expenses to clean away. From then on he did not touch on another national issue-not Prohibition, nor the Ku Klax Klan. The crowd applauded but it did not go wild...
...Spithead naval review of 1897, a trim ship some 100 feet long with Turbinia on her taffrail was observed by irate officials to be cutting deliberately across the bows of the royal yacht. Immediately patrol boats gave chase. But the Turbinia showed a clean pair of heels to the fastest ships of the line. Aboard her stood Engineer Parsons, grinning. He had the fastest ship in the world. Within seven years, every British man-of-war and most large passenger ,ships were being fitted with steam turbines. In 1911 the inventor was knighted...