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...would have continued enthroned in the German mind, had not party ambition betrayed him to his enemies. He is no longer the symbol of a lost cause, but a grey-headed politician, and the reverence that he once commanded lies turned to scorn. Charlatan or genius, fool or master, he and his glorious reputation will be dragged in the mire of politics...
This story was particularized, emphasized, dramatized, sentimentalized, moralized and painstakingly advertised for eight days by newspapers good, bad and indifferent. Chapman's picture appeared time and again: "Picking his jury. . . . Answering prosecutor. . . . Talking with counsel. . . . Eating lunch." And the "color" paragraphists described him: "Master criminal mind. . . . Intellec- tual desperado. . . . Misguided genius. . . . Stoic sinner. . . . Finely modeled head of a thinker.* . . . Artistic hands...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED−Pauline Lord gives the best performance in town as the waitress who married by mail and betrayed her master on the wedding night...
Gaston Doumergue, President of France and Grand Master of the Order of the Legion of Honor, was received by General Dubail, Grand Chancellor; General Nollet, Minister of War; Marshals of France Foch and Joffre, in full-dress uniform, U. S. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, in full evening dress, when he arrived at the Palace of the Legion of Honor on the Quai d'Orsay...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED ?The vineyards and the sunshine of California robbed of their sweetness and their light by a wayward wench from San Francisco who marries the master of the vineyard by mail...