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...might have shown a preference in the naming of his earldom for some title as hoar in honor as the first half of that possessed by nouveau Lord Oxford and Asquith. Instead, little Freddy Smith, grown up into one of England's greatest barrister-statesmen proclaimed his origin by choosing the name of a city scarcely older than himself...
...cold, sand, heat-hoping that after Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang was ousted from Peking (TIME, April 5, et seq.) its co-conquerors, Super-Tuchuns Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin, would set up a stable government. That hope has eluded fulfillment like a mirage and Peking has grown hot, hotter, too hot. Last week the delegates passed a motion to adjourn indefinitely, packed their traps and trinkets, departed...
...greatgrandmother." This fact, "a source of unending pride . . . has grown into a humble yet valiant desire to write of times in which, if he had been the arbiter of his own destiny, he would gladly have lived." For ten years he has been gathering the material, and "foot by foot the hallowed ground has been travelled" for an historical novel with the Anglo-French struggle in the 1750's for domination of Canada as its background. Here, at last, is that novel. Its titular figure is Peter Joel, border mystery-man, who dyed his doeskins black, sooted his face...
...which operates 37,000,000 spindles* in 3,000 mills. They were wary because they are traditionally accustomed to "sneaking up on one another"- in a commercial way-and hamstringing one another through one another's trade sinews. The New England manufacturers had begun this cutlass-heaving, had grown potent - in a commercial way. Southern manufacturers, as they set themselves up along the Atlantic coastal plain, acquired the same tactics. This became all the easier when the New Englanders commenced filtering south for the sake of the cheap mountain labor of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama. And last...
...east to school at Hopkins Hall (near Bennington, Vt.). She was still very small when the War started, and one year she came home for the summer holidays to find the house strangely empty. Her father had gone to France. When, two years later, he came back, she had grown out of all recognition. A friend of the family's, William C. ("Pop") Fuller, had had a hand in promoting this growth. Knowing how things were apt to be with the doctor away and all, he got into the way of dropping over every afternoon and taking Helen down...