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A silent man, gentle and mild-mannered from choice, Dr. Klein is able to unleash at will a dynamic personality. His propulsive will drove him to a study of Spanish and Latin-American economic problems (1912-14) ; and the World War found him an instructor of Latin-American history and...
The pages are broken with epigrams: "Good servants are trustworthy and it is doubtful whether there is a great man in history who would not, as a valet, have pilfered from his master." The style is quicker on its feet, less mannered, than before. Occasionally, as indicated, Author Arlen squares...
"In this audaciously frank autobiography, the most glamorous figure since Lord Byron shares with us his confessions and his memories. ... Strange wastrel days ... flashes of long-gone frolics ... These astounding confessions bid fair to become the sensation of the literary year," said a Ladies' Home Journal advertisement in October...
Wilson went to No. 2340 S Street to die. His Cabinet scattered to their distant homes whence they had been so glamorously summoned. Mild-mannered Albert Sidney Burleson, Postmaster General (1913-21) was off to Austin, Tex., to build up & neglected law practice; behind him he left the days when...
Senators Walsh of Massachusetts and Ransdell of Louisiana, both of whom are Catholics; and Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic floor leader, proceeded to administer well-mannered reprimands to Senator Heflin. Senator Ashurst of Arizona added the final rebuke: