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...Patrick converted the Irish, consecrated 350 bishops, among them a friend of his named St. MacCarthem. Traditionally he drove the snakes from old Erin, howling "Faugh-a-ballaugh!" On what is now Ireland's Holy Hill he spent 40 days, heckled by demons in the form of hideous birds of prey which he finally scattered by ringing his bell. Then, like Jacob, he wrestled with a visiting angel, extracting five concessions. The last one St. Patrick judged the nicest: on Judgment Day he would be deputized to judge the whole Irish race. A large court he will need; several...
...have his name entered? The Duke of Peterborough, Lord Lounsbury, Earl of Ludgate, Lord Gray of Shasta and Mount Hellicon, The Vagabond. No he thought not. He was rather sure not. No, he really didn't need or require a straight grained pipe. It was all a joke, a hideous, ill-timed joke. Show him anything, give him anything. Half England was staring at him and he wanted to be alone...
...started Gnrrelieder when he was 26 (he is 57 now), when he was deeply impressed with Wagner's harmonic combinations, Wagner's use of Leitmotifs. Inspired by Wag ner, he wrote music of stirring beauty. But most of his later, more original works have struck laymen as hideous and obscure. They have had a certain technical interest in that they have grown out of extensive experiments with chromatics and the twelve-tone scale. They illustrate new elaborately propounded principles which many a young ultra modern is endeavoring to cultivate. But such cerebral mat ters have little interest...
...these things from actually living them. We, who know what war really is, are not pacifists. We don't want another. We feel that these pictures are desired only by publishers for personal gain or by the morbid who derive a fiendish delight from pictures of war-torn wounded, hideous contortions of agonizing death, bloated, discolored, decomposing bodies of young manhood. The publication of such photographs will not prevent war. We know that helplessness invites it (witness China). We feel that pacifists like Carrie Chapman Catt, who weakened the defences of the country so that the last war could...
...Judge began, George Wilkes and Enoch Camp established in Manhattan the National Police Gazette. Purpose: "To assist the operations of the police department . . . by publishing a minute description of felons' names, aliases and persons," offering "a most interesting record of horrid murders, outrageous robberies, bold forgeries, astounding burglaries, hideous rapes, vulgar seductions." Like Judge, the Police Gazette tried to live up to its founders' precepts, but languished with the rise of modern tabloid journalism. Insolvent for four months, it suspended publication last month. Last week Irving Trust Co. also...