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Meantime, the Pravda, Moscow journal, grew livid over the absence of any protest from the world bourgeoisie...
...night, when lurid shafts of light played in a forbidden alley, when girls looked longingly at his curly, black hair, Kenneth Farr of the Middle West could not help feeling that there was more in life than his mother had told him about between family prayers. When he grew older and found he was right, he pitied himself for not having been told; posed alternately as "misunderstood" and "no good." As is usual in such cases, he wrote bad verse. He sought liberation on the stage, in journalism, in writing advertising; but found it only, invariably, in willing women. Eventually...
...United States and Finland. Unquestionably he was at least partially successful in achieving that end during the first few months of his visit. His running was phenomenal. It brought forth a wave of enthusiastic applause never before extended to a track athlete. Then suddenly Nurmi became too popular. Audiences grew colder, newspapers less polite, and finally the petty track officials of the middle West tried to bar him from amateur competition...
Miss Lowell was born in Brookline in 1874, and early showed evidence of marked poetical talent. She published single poems from time to time and as her fame and popularity grew she collected them together and published them in book form...
...hours after the closing of the polls, returns began to trickle in. Early reports showed ex-Chancellor Marx, Republican candidate, in the lead; but as time wore on, Hindenburg grew stronger and stronger. Marx captured Berlin by a huge majority. At Nürnberg, Stuttgart, Cassel, Heidelberg, Marx scored slight victories over the Monarchists; but the Field Marshal came back strong in Munich, Stettin, Leipzig, Halle, "the reddest town in Germany," Frankfort, Coburg, home of deposed monarchs. Finally, in the early hours of the morning, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg was declared elected President of the German Republic. Returns...