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...Geneva, for at least one month in the year, presumably September, has become the most important spot in the world, or at any rate important enough to warrant the strict attention of all civilized mankind, including both supporters and opponents of the League. To this ancient town every fall flock from all parts of the the globe statesmen, politicians who are not statesmen, journalists, authors, students, and sight-seers. As a spectacle alone this varied gathering is well worth looking at. But for anyone who is something more than a gaping tourist Geneva in September is far more than just...
...family and the village. He ran errands, dug in the garden and walked, when not in demand, to South Egdon, for respite from mankind's puzzling beastliness. This he found in his only friend, Henry Neville, the South Egdon curate, a sickly ascetic who was hated by his flock because he did not bully them into religion as a proper curate should. Instead he forgave them their malice, an effrontery that he aggravated when he robbed them of the pleasure of stoning him to death by taking poison to end a mortal illness...
Frank R. Kent, keen, knowing Democratic correspondent, wrote to his newspaper, The Baltimore Sun: "A whole flock of revived reports, emanating from here, about changes in the Coolidge Cabinet have gone flying over the country. A great many people believe them...
...time when the Italian Government is dropping courtesies to the Church of Rome and the latter is significantly but coldly observing the amenities, His Eminence Cardinal Pietro Maffi, Archbishop of Pisa, chose to issue a pastoral letter to his flock on the subject of "Thou shalt not kill...
...spoke of St. Paul-how the apostle bade farewell to the Corinthians, his only permanent flock, to whom he later wrote the immortal letter on love. As St. Paul must have done, so Dr. Fosdick would summarize "the things they had been standing...