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Heinrich Steinweg had a long brown beard that lay on his chest like a cloud guarding a secret. His son, Charles, also had a beard, but he was a wild, moonlighting fellow, and the end of it was that he had to flee the country. His choice left him free to write a letter home in which he described glowingly the country he had reached. His father, mother, six assorted brothers, sisters, set out to reach his side. When Henry Clay was making a vain but practised compromise with Death, and John Calhoun had roared his last, Peter Cooper, builder...
...Only one cloud dimmed this otherwise clear sky, and this soon blew over. Owners of shorefront property are permitted to acquire title to lowlands in front of their holdings. Some of the interior representatives contended that such title should not automatically pass, hut should be acquired only from the state. Shorefront property holders have benefitted by millions through the present law, and for once they shivered slightly when the proposal was made to halt the present practise. But the proposed repeal was soon put into the discard by the triumphant clan of realtors; and Florida's record...
Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, having won the women's singles, doubles and mixed doubles tennis championships of France (TIME, June 15), put away her brace of rackets, adventured on the golf course of the St. Cloud Country Club, turned in a 93* which won her second prize in a tournament organized by a sporting journal...
Enchantment transports him into a dark valley. The moon lifts the white of an eye over a cloud, but lightless in the glade he wanders; the forest talks to him in many voices; night presses her hands over his eyes. Ever lie hear.; in his heart the voice of the once happy squirrel, reproaching him for the hurt he did her furry side, her tender paw, and he weeps with regret in the sullen copice, uncomforted. The squirrel, unable to support any longer the pain of her wound, falls swooning at his feet. He picks her up. He bandages with...
Rightly or wrongly, these events were taken to indicate a change of British policy in India; but more probably they indicated a black cloud, the harbinger of trouble...