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...roan. A few hours later that battle too was won and one soldier told another, as they pulled off their sweaty shirts, how he had frightened a fat Spanish corporal by prodding him with his own knife or how he had weeked the mustachio of a lean little Spanish captain...
...through Horace Collins Pitkin's adolescence sounded the cry to missionary work in China: ". . . his father's last wish. . . ." The father's desires were to live in the son's works. No matter if the son's works had better lean from the father's wants. It was difficult...
...married Una Call Kuster in 1913. They have twin boys. Lean, athletic, needing solitude, he built a house of sea-boulders on a headland near Carmel, Calif. Falcons nested in his tower of "hawk-perch" stones. Some years ago he offered Tamar and Other Poems to Manhattan publishers but only an obscure Irish printer, Peter G. Boyle, would risk handling such inflammable material as a tragedy of incest (TIME, March 30, 1925). Reviews soon brought him to a notice for which he has small regard but which must become, despite the book world's busy piddlings, nationwide and perpetual...
...attend meetings at which a Democrat is the principal speaker, his ears must last week have heard strange sounds and subversive doctrine. For, attending a farmers' meeting at Ardmore, S. Dak., the President listened while Democratic Governor Bulow of South Dakota assailed the Republican tariff. The Governor, tall, lean, ruddy complexioned, with a long, thin face and rather a dominating nose, maintained that farmers must be given fair treatment if "this country is to long survive." Governor Bulow felt that if the "discriminatory" tariff were not remedied, the farmer would have to be given assistance in the form...
...Dimond (Brooklyn), Paul Chotteau (Manhattan) and Edward F. Keating (Manhattan). This last is a 24-year-old who learned to swim near a pier in the East River. Unlike the others above listed, he was not considered a prominent contender. He lacked the fatty layers that blanket lean muscles against numbing water. . . . One by one they dropped out of the race. Paul Chotteau, after 26 hours, gave up six miles from the finish. The German Vierkoetter surrendered after 14 hours, declaring he would attempt the distance again, when his digestion was functioning normally. Mrs. Dimond dropped out within sight...