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...Senate received, and referred to the Judiciary Committee, the nomination of Attorney General Stone for Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, vice Joseph McKenna, resigned. Speculation as to whom the President would now draft into his Cabinet vice Stone, lingered longest on Attorney Silas Strawn, of Chicago; on James M. Beck, U. S. Solicitor-General...
...doyen, dean or senior member of the diplomatic corps obtains this official honor by virtue of having had the longest term of service at a given Capital; although, of course an Ambassador always outranks a Minister. The doyen (and subordinate members of his Embassy), followed by other Ambassadors (and their suites) in point of seniority, heads the official Diplomatic list published by the State Department; he takes precedent at social functions; he is the first diplomat to receive the official call of a newly arriving Ambassador; he heads the diplomatic corps as a body on ceremonial occasions; and, in emergency...
...SHOW-OFF?The longest-winded hero you ever heard making himself so offensive that you have to like him in spite of yourself...
Hanover, N. H., October 20.--Dartmouth began a strenuous four-day drive for the Harvard game today when Coach Hawley put the first team through the longest practice of the season. When dusk set in, a ghost ball was employed in order that the practice might be continued longer...
...shape that flew south as the birds were flying, as the grey geese, the sleek ducks that leave their marshy beds and beat away with the frost at their backs. The Shenandoah it was, which had on that cool morning left its hangar at Lakehurst to start on the longest flight ever attempted by an airship...