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...Only two Representatives now in the House have served there longer: Cooper of Wisconsin (31 years) and Butler of Tennsylvania (29 years). Able, active Burton of Ohio, aged 75, has served only 21 years in addition to his six years' interlude in the Senate...
...national court tennis championship from Charles E. Sand. He became the sporting sensation of the decade. He went abroad to get a match with Eustace H. Mills, champion of England, who did not want to play him at all, for he had heard the laconic comment of Major Cooper Key that "America has put the brains of a veteran into a youth of 17." Public sentiment forced Mills into the match and he won. Jay Gould returned to the U. S., entered Columbia, was elected captain of the freshman track team, led his class to triumph over the sophomores...
...reading machine. In its reduced shape, it was a 13-page pamphlet, 3½ inches wide, 5½ inches long. How big will an encyclopedia be when shrunk for the Fiskoscope? No bigger than an ordinary novel. The Oxford Dictionary? A trifling brochure. The works of Balzac, of James Fenimore Cooper, of Thackeray, Scott, James Joyce? Slender dockets. Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf will melt to the thickness of a few packs of cards and those advertisement-readers who seek culture for ten minutes a day can carry whole libraries in their waistcoat pockets...
...accomplished Emily Stevens. Just now it does not seem so brisk. There is an air about it of dust disturbed. People do not like so many lumps of coincidence in their play these days. There are complications about smuggling and infidelity, and some excellent acting. Violet Kemble Cooper and Morgan Farley have the leads...
Lady Diana. Chicagoans marveled at the beauty of Lady Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners Duff-Cooper, understood why Britain pets and serves her as its fairest daughter. A slip of a woman in her early thirties, colored in delicate pastel, she sustains the fame of the women of her late father's house of Rutland. In the 18th Century, Mary Isabella, "the beautiful duchess," sat four times to Sir Joshua Reynolds. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall, whom Lady Diana is said to resemble most and whose device and motto she uses (a peacock rampant, subscribed Pour y parvenir), bobbed...