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...King George V: "I underwent an operation to have my two little toes removed. I had been afflicted with 'hammer-toe'-a shortening of the tendons which causes the little toe to curl up and is very painful in walking and dancing, of which I am very fond...
...lusty bachelor", but now the "irrepresible vitality of youth" does not let him rest content until he has gone far afield in search of new Molochs. And the blushing maiden, too, is not satisfied until she has set on a pedestal an idol, at which she may gaze with fond adoration. A Farrar, who made the flappers shriek with grief as she bade them adieu from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, or a passionate twentieth century Valentine, who makes his audience stare with awe as he wrecks the lives of tearful cinema ladies, may easily become, the objects...
...Whatever fond hopes may have been held for the conference must by this time have nearly gone a-glimmering. The sight of twentieth-century diplomats, so-called, straining at notes and swallowing armaments, provokes either laughter or ennui--certainly not admiration. Without doubt Europe is more ready to call some sort of international truce than it has been for centuries. Yet the truce is not forthcoming. The conference has been going on long enough to have accomplished something by now; and yet no one is happy or satisfied. Expect perhaps the diplomats themselves...
...time ago to "your Hylans, your Thompsons, and your Curleys". Forgive me; I find so many matters of style to follow in your columns). But, as I was saying, laboring men--especially those naughty unionists--have such poor literary taste and such distorted economic principles that they have a fond hope that, perhaps, college teaches men to do their part in straightening out (what the unionists consider) a rather tangled economic system; and when they find that the college chappies can only suggest improved ways of striking, they--why, they take the hint...
...University was held to a tie, he downed Auburn College, and later overcame Georgia Tech. He is also a heavy slugger, but in this he is not unaided, for his team-mates, Captain Hope, Carlyle, center field, Simms, right fielder, and Thaxton, second baseman, are all batsmen who are fond of having the last word. Thaxton is already famous for having landed for two home runs and a triple in the first game with Tech...