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...Gouraud looking on, the canvas was lifted from Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's* inspired masterpiece. The statue stands 300 ft. out in the harbor on a 70-ft. masonry pillar. The eagle has a tensile wingspread of 35 ft. The Bretons gazed in wonder at the power and grace of Mrs. Whitney's work...
...Happened. It was Nov. 9, 1918. "The enemy, disorganized by our repeated attacks, yields on all fronts." Thus Marshal Foch telegraphed his commanders. Simultaneously, at Spa (Belgium), Fildmarschall von Hindenburg sought Wilhelm II, "By the Grace of God, King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany, Supreme War Lord." The Feldmarschall declared: "Your Majesty, that must be said which I cannot, as a loyal Prussian, say to my King." General Groner (successor to Ludendorff) responded to a curt inquiring nod from the Kaiser: "Sire, the Army will march home in peace and order under its own generals, but not under...
Married. Emmeline Grace, daughter of the president of the Bethlehem Steel Co. (Eugene G. Grace); to Alton Parker Hall, son of a Bridgeport clergyman, grandson of the late Alton Brooks Parker; in the chapel of Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. Six hundred guests were feted...
Ashore, thousands tried to catch the emerald and diamond ring on Cardinal Bonzano's hand-to get grace thereby. The police permitted a few to kiss the ring...
...told, the book is rather a mediocre feat for the celebrated scorner of average men, literary grace, Pulitzer Prizes. The flaying of E. Wesson Woodbury may spoil a great many people's summer vacations, but far more malice could have been wrought, and more sales made, if the ending had not been so tediously dragged out. After paddling far up the stream of U. S. literature, Mr. Lewis has idly turned his canoe and shot some unexciting rapids...