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...their poor mother's chores, pastured the cows on Boston Common. But it was during summer visits in Concord, at Step-Grandfather Ripley's manse, that New England Nature smiled on him. By the responsive leaping of his heart, he felt that his own human nature was designed for glorious affairs...
...time since the glorious American clipper ship era has the nation displayed such a keen interest in its ship activities," said President Hoover as he pushed a White House button which launched the Grace Line's 18,000-ton Santa Rosa at Kearny...
...Owen, the raspy-voiced, jonquil-haired socialite charmer in Happy Landing. Usually associated with film work, Miss Owen made her first success in the entertainment business with her appearance on Broadway in The Whole Town's Talking. Afterward she went to Hollywood, played opposite John Gilbert in His Glorious Night, with Lawrence Tibbett in The Rogue Song, with Levis Stone in Strictly Unconventional. She announces as the reason for turning her back on the Golden Calf of Hollywood a need to "help her technique." Miss Owen is not alone among oldtime film folk, some definitely shelved by film producers...
...decades that followed, through a series of adventures not always glorious, the young poet confirmed the first impression of Saint-Beuve. He wrote the loviest of romantic poems, and the most delightful parodies of romantic poems. He produced a series of plays which, with appropriate subservience to tradition, were recognized as masterpieces, after his death. He ran off to Venice with a lady older than himself, named George Sand, who eventually wearied of the inevitable struggle between two geniuses who happen also to be lovers, and eloped with an Italian doctor...
...loan of a few pictures to be added to the large unofficial store already on hand. But the War Department was adamant. Gold Star mothers had been shown tidy graveyards in Flanders; they must never be made to suffer the awful pang of realization that war was not the glorious sacrifice it had been represented to them. "Such a policy would not be ethical; it would not be decent...