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...strange how little stir is made in this country over the election of a President. The people make a great fuss and a hullabaloo about going to the polls in November and electing 531 citizens, mostly nobodies, who never make or administer. But when, in January, these 531 "nobodies" assemble in little groups here and there and elect the President of the U. S. for four years to come, the people know little of it and care less. So little interest attends the event that it is some weeks before the ballots are assembled and counted...
...write one, although I have no particular error to which I wish to call attention. Once in a while I see one and feel like writing to you about it and then am too lazy, and find ultimately that it was not important enough to make a fuss about or that somebody else has written you about...
...current Hearst's International. In it, the author tells how "a squat fat French legal man, the sign on whose door read: "Divorce Judgments in 1½ Months," promised him for two thousand francs ($100) a divorce in from four to six weeks "if his wife made no fuss." When Mr. Hunt stated that his wife was in the U. S., the lawyer replied: "As far as your wife is concerned, we will simply get her a fake certificate of domicile...
...Apes took the screen; of "Achmet Ben" and party, who entered Manhattan on a "secret" search for "The Virgin of Stamboul"; of the children paid to stare into a store window at September Morn, upon her debut in this cold world, until Anthony Comstock came and raised the fuss that sold Miss Morn into the millions; of "Lot's Wife," sculped in salt to advertise The Queen of Sin and left lying about with a note of introduction from Sodom and Gomorrah. The police discovered her-and the hole in her back showing her wooden spine...
...press made much fuss about his visit, compared it to that of Lord Renfrew, as if the comparison were equal. As he had never met Renfrew, it was suggested that he meet him for the first time on U. S. soil. He replied...