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...obviousness of a "character part," Miss Brady's support is none too good. But Miss Brady is one of the few actresses who can carry a play by her own individuality an ability. Playing in a quiet manner, much different from her hectic incoherence of "Bride Of The Lamb", she is splendid as one of the girls you forget to remember. The moral appears to be that husbands are a necessity and a girl can't remain respectable and unmarried
...69th Congress entered its last session like a mild, limping lamb and exited like a wild, snorting lion. In December, many a critic predicted a do-nothing session. "It will be lucky," said some, "if it passes the appropriation bills." As March 4 approached, it appeared that this session, unfamed, unsung, had accomplished more than any short session of Congress since Woodrow Wilson's first administration and seldom missed an opportunity to defy, vex, prod the Calvin Coolidge Adminstration. Important doings...
Henry Ford has opened his school at Sudbury. It seems that his aim is much more serious than merely to provide the famous lamb with another opportunity for a whack at higher education. The school is to be an example to all of New England. By its methods and training it will show the great need of manual labor, if Mr. Ford's expectations are fulfilled...
...grief of Achilles over the body of Patroclus; the death of Socrates; "Hark! Hark! the Lark" and "Full Fathom Five"; "Lycidas"; "To Althea from Prison"; Gulliver and the Lilliputians; Tristram and the Ass; the Pibroch of Donuil Dhu; "The Rime of the Ancient Mari-er" and "Kubla Khan"; Lamb's "Gentle Giantess"; Edward John Trelawny on how they burned Shelley's body; a great deal of Keats; more Tennyson; still more Thackeray and Browning and more Dickens than anyone...
...small tube; over the inner end of each tube was a parchment diaphragm; centred in each diaphragm and pricking into the spiral incision was a needle. Mr. Edison wrapped tinfoil around the drum, cranked slowly and into one of the tubes loudly declaimed, "Mary had a little lamb! Mary had a little lamb!" Turning the shaft back, he adjusted the other tube, cranked again and the tube repeated timidly, "Mary had a little lamb." Mr. Edison and a mechanic worked all night. In the morning Mr. Edison went to New York with his contraption under his arm. He placed...