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...blood royal. At the time of her birth, in 1844, her father was only "Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gluücksburg," a younger son of a somewhat minor German house. Not until the death of King Frederick VII of Denmark, when the reigning house of Denmark became extinct, was Christian elected king of Denmark by popular vote, in 1863. Thus it chanced that Alexandra and her sister Dagmar spent their youth as impecunious though radiantly beautiful princesses, who made most of their own clothes and lived quietly with their mother, the former Princess Louise of Hesse-Cassel...
...college as exclusively a world of intellectual pursuits is rapidly be coming an extinct species", writes Professor Jerome Davis of Yale in the December "Century". Then he proceeds to suggest two methods of preservation. Both of these, the procuring of inspirational teachers, the linking of college more directly living, have been delineated many times before...
...oldest legitimate theatrical producers in the country. . . . This tax is one of the things that practically make spoken drama extinct. I think I know more about the theatre than Secretary Mellon does. . . . The movie show can be carried in a round tin can, the vaudeville sketch provides its own lines and scenery, all baseball needs to operate is bats and balls; but the legitimate producer must make his own scenery and pay his actors and the crew of the theatre. All the movie companies, baseball and vaudeville have paid dividends, but no legitimate company is able to do so. Otis...
...scope for all those with latent oratorical ambitions and yield much interest and entertainment for those who come to scoff or pray. Let it be hoped this eruption of the Union will have a positive result, for like volcanoes, debating societies are only worthwhile when definitely active or definitely extinct...
...state have no longer fear of the horse thief. He has gone the way of all the figures of a less mechanical past. So the Irish leader of the English stage can arrange no more "She wings of Blascos". Like the dodo, Shaw's hero has become extinct...