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...touch that apparently makes Oriental and Occidental kin is the announcement of Reverend Potter's suggestion that an All-American bible be written. By one literary tour de force the life and writings of the smuggler Hancock become enshrined in the American Genesis; Daniel Boone becomes the leader of the lost in a new wilderness wandering; and the debates of Congress furnish the tediousness of a new Numbers. But the discussion that is already arising over the proposal that Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" be designated the American Psalms gives an indication of the keen competition that faces aspirants...
Football that makes the whole world kin...
...more properly Giovanni Cabote, an Italian. There was George Cabot, President of the Hartford Convention in 1814-1815. But a Boston Who's Who of 1851 says that his family originated in Beverly, Mass., and was formerly called Corbett. This source might make James J. Corbett (whilom champion pugilist) kin to the Cabots of Boston...
...Mountbatten had jilted the Crown Prince of Sweden out of love for a poor painter, frustrating the ambition of King George to marry his kinsmen to people to wealth. Said Miss Margery Rex: "You mustn't think George V takes tips or percentages off the weddings of his kin to persons of means"-the point being that King George is worried about supporting poor relatives
Every field of human activity has its peculiar innovation in this age of radical reform. The Fabians and their kin are busy penning their scholarly dissertations; and more humble intelligensia, essays for handbill and pamphlet. The artist folk, in timely appeal to the aesthetic boobery, sanctions and cherishes Armfield's "synthetic drama" and the futurist antics of Marinetti. The reader of the newspapers learns with astonishment that the aeroplane has been successfully adopted by criminals for purpose of escape, and that Trotzky is producing a series of communistic plays which he is forcing the hapless Russians to attend...