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That night's voyage was marked by two untoward events. The members of the party had eaten some crabs which had been a parting gift from the citizens of Sitka. Either the crabs or some canned foods aboard the Henderson were not good. During the night several members of the party became indisposed, among them Mrs. Herbert C. Hoover, George B. Christian, Jr., Secretary to the President, and Mr. Harding himself. The President suffered from pains in his abdomen during the night...
Villa, the ex-bandit, had been living on his "gift ranch" at Las Nievas, Durango, Mexico. This ranch and an annuity was the price that Obregon's Government paid for Villa's good behavior...
Then there are the Moon Poems ?all of them?and some of the Verses of an Especially Inscriptional Character, where Mr. Lindsay's very much unappreciated lyric gift is seen at its best. And My Fathers Came from Kentucky?and others?many others?kettledrum, piccolo, flute and birchbark moose-call?in fact, almost every instrument. Really, the only thing to do with a book like this is to read...
...last week. He was a boy I had met at a meeting of some down town settlement club. " What am I to do?" he asked. " I'm in the doll business. There's no excitement in that and no one to whom I can talk! " What a gift it is to the world to find the sort of person to whom one can talk, who suddenly impresses one as being all-wise and trustworthy, whose eyes have looked on life and have not been terrified by its secrets. Such, to the young novelist, is Thomas Hardy, the veteran...
...gift has no connection with the organized Rockefeller philanthropies, but will be distributed by Dr. Simon Flexner, Director of the Rockefeller Institute, to the following hospitals: University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich.; New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago; Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland; University Hospital, Iowa City, la.; Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal; Physiatric Institute, Morristown, N. J.; Touro Infirmary, New Orleans; Presbyterian Hospital, New York; Barnes Hospital, St. Louis; Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto General Hospital, Banting-Best Fund, University of Toronto, Toronto...