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Paris Bohemians, needing diversion, become his disciples. So also Rosemary Kent, daughter of a steel magnate, Great Dragon of the Indiana K. K. K. As brother and sister they live in Marly woods, barefoot, till Rosemary catches cold, and returns to patent-leather slippers in America...
...that great Yuan Shih-kai might rise as a towering cohesive force from his open tomb in Honan. So great and national was his prestige that during the last year of his life and of his Presidency (1916) a movement to proclaim him Emperor and seat him on the Dragon Throne failed by the narrowest of margins. When the Chinese Revolution broke, in 1911, Yuan Shih-kai, then Viceroy of Hunan and Hupeh, declared with prophetic vision: "Chaos will ensue. . . . For several decades there will be no peace in China...
...included the smirking suggestion that Inquisitor Walsh had been an intimate of Doheny's. Stalwart 38-year-old Senator Tydings of Maryland chewed hard on his chewing gum until Senator Robinson sat down. Then he repeated the Harrison performance, cramming Indiana's "birds of a feather," including murderous Dragon D. C. Stephenson of the Indiana Klan, down Senator Robinson's throat...
...only speculate as to the treatment accorded the Great Temperance Movement by one who was not brought up in the American atmosphere of W. C. T. U. tent meetings, Carrie Nation, and soda pop. A mere St. George-and-the-dragon plot would be trite, unless handled in a novel manner. On second thought, it seems that the choice of the epic form has not all the advantages of some other methods of treatment. The French epic has been dormant since Voltaire's Henriade; and the American epic is still unborn; this leaves the opera as the logical form...
...Conspiracy. It is charged that Ed Jackson, Dragon Stephenson and two minor politicians put their heads together in 1923, found that they needed 10.000 votes to swing the coming gubernatorial primary, decided that control of Marion county's prosecuting office would give them the votes, offered Governor McCray (then in mail trouble) $10,000 to let them name the prosecutor. Also they promised Governor McCray that no jury in Indiana would convict him of any crime. Governor McCray refused...