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...times a caustic but never a savage critic, Gosse made his reputation by discriminating paeans in praise of established figures, but he wrote appreciatively of such contemporaries as Algernon Charles Swinburne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Andrew Lang, Thomas Hardy, George Moore and many a younger man. It was to Gosse that Swinburne divulged his famed outburst against Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose reported remarks had offended Swinburne. When Gosse learned that Swinburne had written to Emerson, he said: " 'I hope you said nothing rash.' 'Oh, no.' 'But what did you say?' I kept my temper...
...year-old banking firm of A. Hirte closed its doors in Berlin. Rüderer & Lang of Munich suspended payments...
...slaves! Go to Moscow!" Impressively they arose during a later debate, walked out of the meeting just as dramatically as Hitlerites walked out of the Reichstag last February. Next day they walked back in, minus Leader Jabotinsky who announced he would take a six-month leave. One Revisionist, Abraham Lang, tore down a blue-&-white Zionist flag because he thought the Congress had "betrayed Zionism's ideals." He was tried last week, suspended from Zionist activities until next December. Abraham Lang wept...
...Lang is the sort of man who would rather have a pious widow's mite than $10,000,000 not given in the proper spirit. The Archbishop would live meanly among the poor, were he not obliged to live sumptuously at Lambeth Palace. The Primate would sail to Jerusalem in a fishing smack like St. Peter's, did not J. P. Morgan insist upon taking him there on the Corsair (TIME, March...
...Harkness is a man who almost never says anything to the public. Re- sponding to Dr. Lang last week, while Poet Rudyard Kipling looked on and nodded approval, the Great Giver said...