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Blessed with the spiritual power of that world of dreams where men are gods and women are divine--the modern poet tosses his spurs into the air, Pegasus into the clouds, and scales Mt. Olympus with a step-ladder. From one of the current magazines flows fanciful and free the fairest flickers of such fervent fluttering--and there are these delightful lines...
...answer probably lies in the contagious thrill which all newspaper work holds. Most of us, at one time or another, after deciding that we didn't after all want to be a policeman or drive the rear end of a hook and ladder truck, evolve the theory that we are natural born newspaper men. And there is a bit of the journalist in many of us. A CRIMSON competition helps to show how much...
...William Ford, storekeeper in the village of Drumcollogher, County Limerick, welcomed to the musty loft of his barn last week a crowd of eager Irish peasants who climbed up the single rickety ladder, sat down in rapt expectance of Drumcollogher's first cinema show, a drama called The Decoy...
Samuel Insull Jr.-short, stocky, quick-spoken-has never had the least doubt of his destiny. Always, yet without obnoxious parade, he has carried himself as the proper successor of a potent sire. There was no starting at the "bottom of the ladder" for him. Graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School, he studied public utility management problems in Europe and the U. S. under his father's skilled guidance. He has functioned as vice president and assistant to the president (his father) of the com pany he now heads. Now as president-with his training, with his 26 years...
...Ryan, Kuhn Loeb & Co., Speyer & Co.; and Agnes (Huntington) Cravath, onetime opera singer; after 32 years of married life.* In the actual language of the press of the '90s, he, "a devoted lover, a strapping fellow with sweeping mustachios of dark brown" impatiently climbed a 20-ft. ladder of the steamer Teutonic to meet his lady...