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...discussed many things; among them, the Negro problem. She is a Southerner, and fond of her "mammy." She says that she wants the Negroes to have everything she has-but she draws the line at "eatin' and sleepin...
...accepts the captaincy of a tramp steamer and, accompanied by his daughter, goes to Southampton, its port of departure. While there, he visits the room in the Reindeer Hotel, where he said goodby to Blacky I twenty years before. He plays the old music box, which she was so fond of, and pays old George five pounds, the result of a bet that Ango would never return to Southampton. A few minutes after he leaves the hotel, the audience hears the steamship whistle and knows that Waverly Ango is aboard, atoning for his past indiscretions by sailing straighter than...
...unprecedented extent by the limitation of numbers, the prospect "is not encouraging for those Harvard men who know that their sons are not pre-eminent in scholarship, athletics or school leadership, but are sure they are good material for the college." It might be suggested that these fond parents allow their paternal pride to overrule their better judgment--and that it is difficult to see just what athletic eminence has to do with the New Plan examinations. But extraordinary brilliance will never be required for admission to Harvard; and as the sons of graduates have apparently inherited sufficient intelligence...
...leader of the Labor Party MacDonald is placed in a peculiar position. His character, as the author points out in some of his best passages, is after all essentially conservative. He is fond of forms and precedents and traditions; in one of his latest public utterances--almost Gladstonian in tone--he has praised the Scotch Sabbath as compared with the Continental Sunday. It is no wonder that his wilder supporters from Glasgow--the irrepressible Jack Jones and others--should often chafe under the rein and that even his closest friends should bewail the fact that he so seldom chooses...
...well-known play, but some people forget easily, and some may have been touring Europe when this "Cohan show" came to Boston. The story centers about John Paul Bart, who is in the employ of Anton Huber, a tailor. Like all human beings and Horatio Alger heroes, he cherishes fond hopes of becoming a great man, and to further himself intellectually commits to memory many phrases of an unpublished work by Dr. Gustavus Sonntag, the finance of Mr. Huber's daughter, Tanya. Finally opportunity knocks at his door. As a result he appears at the fashionable Stanlaw reception after confiscating...