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...appears that he applied in haste for a visa to come to this country because his wife was ill. The consul in England, doubtless wishing "to play safe" and yet to grant the visa without waiting to consult Washington, agreed to grant it summarily if Count Karolyi would avoid public discussion of political matters?and the Count voluntarily pledged himself to silence...
...several years, and long after its original publication. Meanwhile, Miss Ferber, in a study, newly acquired, is at work on a new novel of Chicago life. She works as hard every day as the man who stands outside my window now and makes life miserable for me and doubtless for himself with a steam rivetter. She works harder. The period when a novel is being written, for a writer with an artistic conscience, is apparently one of the most difficult things imaginable. Doubts assail, characters will not behave, words will not marshal themselves in neat array. It is my belief...
...Dubuque, Iowa, there lives, doubtless, an old lady. Her existence is recognized only because certain middle-aged people in Manhattan began some weeks ago to think about her. She came frequently into their conversation and, at each allusion, a leer passed round the company?all spoke in derisive terms of her taste, though the kinder-hearted merely pitied her for being the victim of an unfortunate environment...
...final picture of the series shows 'two graduates' carefully and gleefully carrying a very heavy and doubtless fragrant suitcase 'en route to the Harvard Club Dinner' at the Racquet Club, Philadelphia, February...
...Story. On board a liner bound for San Francisco from London, in 1851, were 50 miscellaneous orphans in charge of Miss Charlotte Smith, a young English spinster. The ship also contained one O'Malley, inebriate doctor, a Scotswoman named Jean, some scoundrelly sailors and many others who would doubtless have been relevant to this account had not God broken that ship in half, tipping all its wretched occupants into an obscure corner of the Pacific Ocean...