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Next morning startled U. S. financiers scanned an item in their newspapers and speculated. Quite without warning to the public, J. P. Morgan and his London partner, Vivian Smith, had sailed for England, and Thomas W. Lament had sent them...
...Richard L. Stokes, dramatic critic of the St. Louis Post-Despatch) was given a gentle premier in the St. Louis Municipal Theatre last week. Dignity was the keynote. There was no saxophone in the orchestra, nor any instrument with a belly for giggling, or a ribald larynx. Tenor Forest Lament lifted up his voice impressively. An audience of some 9,000 who had come to catcall, hump their shoulders and shuffle their feet, went off to their homes or their cabarets feeling- some of them-that they had been cheated...
...Hainan reproves him for his lassitude, assuredly with justice, ho surrenders himself to rancor, beating the floor with his heels, chasing the cats, the squirrel and committing many acts of violence. Then it is that he hears the old clock sing, with much clucking of the tongue, a lament for the days when its pendulum would work all night; the china gods complain in childish voices; the teapot collogue with the teacup. Amazed, lie tries to hide near the fireplace, but the fire comes from its kennel to nip him in the breeches...
...delighted and then, when I go home, and I reflect that the people who have been applauding me have received no benefit and that, indeed, whatever benefit they might have had, has been killed in the applause, I am sore at heart and I lament and I feel as though I had spoken altogether in vain." Scholar, he was lecturing to scholars. His words were not meat, he thought, for the hounds of the press and, with an almost pathetic earnestness, he tried to shoo them away.* First, the Dean insisted that the New Testament contained no detailed guidance either...
Italy, however, has for long not been keen on the U. S. money market; so, of course, there could be no arrièrepensée behind Mr. Lament's rhapsodies on the Italian landscape. Moreover, financial rehabilitation and gold currency are terms that have not yet been coined in Rome. Clearly, Mr. Lamont was on a vacation. Yet the impression in Wall Street was to the effect that Mr. Lament was not in Italy simply to admire local sunsets and that he may return to Manhattan with something beside good golf scores to show for his "vacation...