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...that of a 'poor relation.' It had been my fate from earliest childhood to live in the presence of wealth which belonged to others." The family moved to Manhattan, where Upton put himself through Columbia as a special student by writing boys' adventure stories for the pulp magazines under the names of "Lieutenant Frederick Garrison, U. S. A." and "Ensign Clarke Fitch, U. S. N." In 1900, when he was 22, he married Meta Fuller, whose father was a newspaperman, whose mother was an old friend of Mrs. Sinclair's. They had a baby at once...
...Wiggs family, waiting patiently for Father Wiggs to return gold-laden from the Klondike, occupies a mean little hovel in the cabbage patch. Mrs. Wiggs takes in washing, Billy Wiggs sells wood, and with the other little Wiggs, they receive each buffet of fate with cheerful fortitude. When such blessings as a decrepit, sway-backed horse, or perhaps a Thanksgiving basket from the beautiful benefactress on the hill, happen to come along, the Wiggs star has ascended to heights unknown. But despite the kindness of a newspaper editor (Kent Taylor) and his sweetheart (Evelyn Venable) the cough of little Jimmy...
...interior policy of King Alexander was such as to make his murder ultimately inevitable, but it is a bitter tragedy that the French minister should have been forced to share his fate. Since his accession to office, M. Barthou has been largely responsible for bringing Russia into the League of Nations, for guiding Italy towards a greater understanding of the Anglo-French outlook, and it was his sincere mission to achieve a closer alliance with the English-speaking nations,--not to mention his part in the formation of the Eastern Locarno Pact. He was one of the most enlightened ministers...
...team, but it is safe to say that the opposing coaches will have no quarrel with the suggested move. Time and the reaction of the inmates as measured by the frequency of attempt at leaving the team in the lurch by departing the place can only tell the ultimate fate of the move...
...Critic again! It is traditional that a fourth publication appear occasionally at Harvard to rear its stalwart knob of a head and then to subside into nothingness and the realm of forgotten dailies. Such was the destined fate of the Critic, it was said, when that publication was relegated last spring to what the defunct Liberal was pleased to call its whited sepulchre.--under the anathema "they did not publish," and it is true that the Critic has again made up its mind to walk the face of the early...