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Long acquainted with George Hiram and rather fond of him for his past courtesies, the Cunard Line last week announced a new kind of trip abroad, for him alone. Perhaps, for steamship companies are very understanding, a special trip for Mrs. G. H. will be thought up later. But for the present, her husband is invited to go to Scotland, stay at the best hotels, play any that he chooses of 48 golf courses (riding to and from the links by motor) and return in five weeks, all for a flat sum (unstated in the advertisement). The only extra expenditures...
...inclosed clipping, your foreign correspondent seems to be fond of the expression "as every one knows"; also "see previous numbers of TIME." Why not request him to eliminate unnecessary verbiage...
...that to forbid its inclusion here would be more than criminal. But, though examination monitors are rather cheerless brethren. I have just found that there is an even worse outfit--the Baptists. In Herr Mencken's monthly a long article by James D. Bernard dissolves any of my fond hopes for the Baptists of the world. In truth the casual reader of Mr. Bernard's essay could easily believe that the only difference between Baptist and Moron is philologic. Now this may not hurt you; it may even amuse you. But you, of course, are not a Baptist...
...world-famed for his technique; would do much good to some cripples; would attract medical and surgical students to his amphitheatre, students who might later attend his Viennese clinics to his legitimate profit as a teacher. But the press took him up; touted him throughout the land; raised fond hopes in hearts of cripples everywhere. These rushed to his free clinics. He was their Messiah. Back of his tired, wrinkled brow, back of his white beard and moustache, they saw only the kindly doctor. From overwork he almost broke down. Then the American Medical Association and other regular societies pitched...
Such was the music once to be heard in a certain house on a certain street in Chicago. The man that made it, a gaunt fellow with a nervous manner, very fond of practical jokes, used to sit up in bed late at night and early in the morning, writing, reciting and writing more. Of an afternoon he would go down to a newspaper office (The Record) where he was employed and have the poems put into type...