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...will take him away." I had not the $2 and I asked him to leave my dog a little while till I could get the money. But he put my dog in the wagon and drove away. The dog felt very bad to go. My wife and children were fond of the dog. He was also a good watchdog...
...James Joyce celebrated his 48th birthday last fortnight in Paris. To him came a congratulatory telegram signed by his great & good friends Author James Stephens, Lord & Lady Astor, Playwright George Bernard Shaw. After the birthday dinner Joyce went to the Opera, heard Tenor John Sullivan sing William Tell. Passionately fond of operagoing, Author Joyce always sits in the front...
...Cabinet. Jaunty, rich, immensely popular, as fond of champagne cocktails as the King, is famed Jacobo Stuart Fitz-James, Duke of Alba (TIME, Dec. 2). Well known to be His Majesty's closest crony, the Duke was recently rumored as a successor to Primo de Rivera, who said at the time "I would never stand in the Duke of Alba...
Important among proponents of the union is stalwart, gracious Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, 62, of Manhattan, Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, potent religious statesman and author, sire of pious offspring,* famed among a fond younger generation as "Weeping Bob" for his emotional sermons. Dr. Speer studied for the ministry, was never ordained, but was made a Doctor of Divinity by the University of Edinburgh in 1910. Thus he is still a layman. But at the conference he personified the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., by far the largest denomination present (estimated membership...
...important essential of any educational institution is the facility for research. To those who were suffering under the fond illusion that the administration had exhausted every available outlet for new restrictions, the announcement that Harvard will not award a degree to any of her sons who cannot maintain his watery equilibrium, comes as a pleasant indication of the University's continued experimentation in the field of curricular requirements. However, another hurdle more or less in the college race means little to the weary undergraduate after a few years practice dodging the devious man-traps lurking in and about...