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...Manhattan home writing his last great speech in a language that will prickle the flesh of a clammy World Court issue-perhaps he is preparing his autobiography; the story of a man who might have been President; a man with codes on his lips, with courts beneath his snowy crown, with creeds lurking in his steely eyes...
...away; and no French man, except perhaps Carnot, made so manly a protest as the man of genius at Vienna who had composed the 'Sinfonia Eroica' and, with a grand republican simplicity inscribed it, 'Beethoven a Bonaparte'. When the master heard that his former hero had taken the imperial crown, he tore off the dedication with a volley of curses on the renegade and tyrant; and in later years he dedicated the immortal work to the 'memory' of a great...
...practicing law in New York City. He has served as a regent of the University of the State of New York, and has been president of the American Bar Association. For his work with the American Red Cross during the world war, he was made an officer of the Crown of Italy and was also appointed a chevalier in the Legion of Honor of France...
Professor Heberlein had found what seemed a complete skull, evidently of the same kind of creature introduced to science by the Dubois fragments - pithecanthropus erectus, the Java apeman. The assumed bones were attached to a spongy stone lump of volcanic origin. The crown was distorted somewhat; the eyesockets bulged abnormally...
...Engaged. Crown Prince Leopold of the Belgians, 24; to Princess Astrid, 20, niece of King Gustaf of Sweden (See BELGIUM...