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...Vagabond, swirling in the haze which fills his tower, finds himself possessed of the gift of clairvoyance. Before his glassy eyes, a vision swims. . . a vision of himself, a graduate and fifteen years out of college. He is sitting in a room whose floors are a hell of rubbish, and whose walls are decorated with photographs in execrable taste. Two small children are at his feet, scrawling on the floor with large blue pencils, and giving vent, periodically, to low, retching noises. From some far place, the howling of another child penetrates. The Vagabond is disconsolate, and does not realize...
...Those who are bruiting a new war are few in number though they may have great money power behind them. They comprise the general staff of the forces of hell, but they are a general staff without an army. . . . I have even heard some people talk about what they call a preventive war with one camp trying to strike against the other before that other camp is adequately prepared. It is the stupidest of all follies to imagine that an injustice can be wiped out by committing an international crime...
...president of the company but August himself is still the sidewhiskered patriarch of U. S. beer, hurling to the last his verbal thunderbolts at Prohibition. While Missouri had the greatest brewery of the U. S., New York produced more than twice as much beer as any other state. The Hell Gate Brewery of George Ehret was going strong before Busch rose, the greatest brewery in America. Ehret was very scientific. His Franziskaner was famous. In 1912 he was offered $40,000,000 for his business, but he could not see bottled beer-would not produce it-and he fell behind...
...such competition that he gave it to his mother. The late Rt. Rev. George Herbert Kinsolving, also tall and, like the rest of the family, personable, un-ministerial and straightforward, was Bishop of Texas. After his election someone told him of Sherman's statement that "if he owned Hell and Texas, he would farm out Texas and live in Hell." Said the Bishop: "Well, General Sherman seems to have had his choice, so I think I will go down and see what I can do with the farm." Bishop Kinsolving once appeared in Baltimore wearing a broad-brimmed...
...country is not going to hell," said Charles Edison, son of the late Inventor Thomas Alva Edison in Manhattan...