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...President Eliot sat down, the whole assemblage resumed their places. The Sheriff of Middlesex County,--a white haired old man in the dark blue uniform of a civil war veteran, walked to the center of the platform and pounded three times upon the floor with his gold-hilted sword as he said "The assembly will now come to order...
...West that she has written. Her stories are vivid, decisive tales of plain and hill. They are filled with excellent background and quick characterization. They move rapidly. They are good stories, probably the best of all the western stories. Mrs. Morrow herself, is tall, dark, a person of rare dignity and poise and of no pretentious. For five years she edited The Delineator. She is modest and she is ambitious. Her new novel,* appearing serially now in Everybody's is called The Devonshers and is a combination of mystery, adventure and the great West. She is a careful workman, spends...
...LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH!"?Lionel Barrymore in a theatrical but effective exposition of the dark side of the silvery laugh of a buffoon...
...still studying at a late hour consequently, when one of the guests was awaked by a man fumbling in a coat pocket, he believed the burglar to be this friend hunting for a cigarette, and did not trouble himself further. The culprit was described by the visitor as a dark man, 5 feet 9 inches in height, wearing a light cap and a dark overcoat. He also added that on the way out he heard the robber saying "46 and 47 next" to an accomplice in the hall. This has been the cause of many theories as to the nature...
...reflect upon the good name of that estimable organization--for in his gathering of miscellaneous coins and bills he showed a distinctly evangelistic spirit. Just what use he can have for English pennies is not at once discernible--although, unlike cats, all pennies do not look alike in the dark. He may have thought them quarters, in which case his perception and not his business sense was at fault. At any rate, one is relieved to know that he was "not the plumber...