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...Street of Forgotten...
Elizabeth Derby's House, Peabody, Mass.-a fine example of the early Federal period. Over the mantel in the living room are two pictures of New England village life, done by that forgotten but once fashionable Italian, Corne of Naples. The first is called Saturday Night; the second, Sunday Morning...
Well do I remember a couple of hours spent one morning in that study, when each of us ought to have been at work at something else, so that our conversation enjoyed the added flavour which goes with forbidden fruit. It began with Ulrich von Hutten; I have forgotten where it ended. In those two hours of conversation I learned more about medical history and more about the persistence of certain queer traits in human nature than could be got from months of study by the most approved method of research. What he said was like Smollett and Gibbon: Smollett...
...such questions were forgotten by the tens of thousands that watched the remains of Chitta Ranjan Das pass through the streets of Calcutta to their last resting place. He was a leader in a movement to democratize India by distributing political power among the villages. It was a task the very nature of which must take generations to accomplish. But he had lived in an epoch when the East was striving in an economic sense to join with the West on equal terms. Vaguely, dimly, confusedly, the masses who had heard of Swaraj understood what the passing of the great...
...Manhattan, Teacher Scopes was rushed about, nervous and bewildered, to conferences where lawyers who were allegedly interested solely in seeing justice done squabbled amongst themselves as to who should be chosen and in what order they should rank. In the excitement, Teacher Scopes became the forgotten instrument of a Great Cause. In the minds of one group of the Scopes advisors, this Cause was the dignified one of abstract academic freedom. This group wanted Lawyer Charles E. Hughes to lend distinction to the case. Others were for "jazzing" the case, splashing it in even larger type through 'the headlines...