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Field Marshal August von Mack-ensen, 78, reviewed at Potsdam, Germany, veterans of German wars with Denmark, Austria and France (men 77 to 93 years old), dined with them, read to them a telegram from their onetime Emperor Wilhelm II: "The glorious fruits of these wars are now unhappily destroyed by discord, and must be fought for again. Gott mit uns, WILHELM...
...Nature produces her best efforts without regard to the audience. That explains the curious comedy sensitive people feel when dolts posturing on high mountains, or above deep chasms breathe: "Wonderful . . . isn't it glorious?" Somehow compliments seem a trifle impudent as well as totally irrelevant...
...since 1894 of Our Hope, a religious magazine, was a fact. Said he: "The second coming of Christ is near. Christ's return will be forecast by a figure sitting on a cloud with something similar to a sickle in his hand. The cloud will flush with a glorious light, then Christ is to come and all the holy angels will come with...
...That glorious old word is "for men only...
...form used last week by Signor Turati: "When we become really free and strong, then, and then only, will the treasures of our great past and our glorious his tory be really ours. Then the Roman eagles will resume their flight again. Where will they alight? It matters not, if the flight be strenuous and the victory great...