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...editor of the American Magazine. During the War he was attached to the State Department, and afterward served as Director of Publicity for the American Commission at the Paris Peace Conference. It was there that Baker -the spectacled, professional, earnest man with his deep chin-dimple and his mustache-grew to know Woodrow Wilson well. Afterward, Mr. Wilson gave him access to his papers, and Mr. Baker produced, two years ago, Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement, a three-volume exhaustive study of the Versailles Peace. It was probably Mr. Wilson's perception that he was a writer of earnestness...
...mysticism. The Enchanted Moment tells how a certain gnome made a top-hatted, cut-awayed, striped-trousered bondholder do a dance without top hat, cutaway, trousers. The Mole was the size of a pea. It was situated on the chin of a storekeeper's wife. Out of it grew three black feline whiskers and the storekeeper's destruction...
...away in the wide open spaces of the sandy Sahara, lights went out, hotels were closed. The night descended, the watch-fires of the tribes grew bright and there was great joy in Moorish camps at the ignominious retreat of the infidel...
...jumped into the ring. "It's a foul!" cried he. "A dirty foul! You've got to award us the match!" The swarthy Munn peered querulously across the mat, tore off his bathrobe, assumed a bellicose attitude, confronted the irate manager. Munn's manager likewise grew threatening; but for all that the referee gave the fall to Lewis on a foul, allowing the latter 15 minutes to get back into the ring. The crowd was indignant, stormed about the ringside, hooting, booing...
...first, last, and always! It is impossible that the stolid merchants of Boston can have calculated the effect of their proposal. Do they not realize that a populace, deprived of its last amusement, becomes sullen and revolutionary? Do they not remember that the Roman emperors fell when they grew stingy with the circus? Let them consult their own memories and recall the blind anger which surged up in them when a tryant father kept them from the elephants and lions...