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Ordinarily, when a distinguished jurist-statesman refuses an invitation to a public banquet, it is only necessary for him to use the words "sorry" and "impracticable," finish off with a sonorous and obviously academical paragraph of good wishes, and sign his name. Last week, however, Elihu Root, having said the...
EAST OF MANSION HOUSE - Thomas Burke-Doran ($2). A Cockney urchin once gazed through the musty windows of an old Chinaman's store in the India Dock Road and experienced some-thing unforgettable. Whether it was a glory, a wisdom or a peace passing understanding, the urchin has never...
Since Mr. Planalp (TIME, Aug. 16) has started a roster of "Names-in-a-million," I beg to submit my own surname, formerly of no little distinction in the New York publishing circles (New York Staats- Zeitung). For purity of origin and significance of meaning, I think it is a...
All four words are to be found in Webster's New International Dictionary. "Stramash," meaning "disturbance, ruction, broil," was applied to chronic political contentions in France. "Jimp," which has five meanings, among them (adjectively) "neat, spruce, trim," was applied to the leg of the original of Mark Twain'...
¶Indulged in many a quiet smile as Premier Baldwin squelched several well-meaning bishops who attempted to intervene in the coal strike. (See below.)