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Very placid is the river Housatonic as it winds through the Berkshire valleys. So even, so quiet is its flow that it is easily able to mirror the gentle, green elevations of ground which the Berkshire dwellers call hills, and which enthusiastic tourists like to call mountains. As gentle as the hills, as placid as the river, the Berkshire villages rise to break the pleasant monotony of the landscape. Their generous houses, most white and clean, front on broad streets with here and there a stretch of New England common. Their lawns slope gracefully to the languid river. Such...
...week, saw Albert Sterner's dramatic Lady Macbeth, the fine portraits by the sisters Emmett: Lydia Field and Leslie. Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman, successor of John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum in chiseling the heroic Stone Mountain relief, showed Vanity, a bronze figure of a woman with a mirror. These were the work of the native colonists...
Clinton W. Gilbert, still with the New York Evening Post, long iamed for his "Daily Mirror of Washington" (mostly personalities, anecdotes) has grown dull and vague. Perhaps because he is cool to Hooverism, whereas his newspaper is Hoover...
...more humbly, he might have been content to watch, listen, report. Reportorial newspaper labels: Observer, Recorder, Review, Eye, Optic, Chronicle, Argus, Register, Messenger, Gazette, Herald, Telegram, Journal, Expositor, Reporter, Truth, Echo, Outlook, Spectator, Ledger, Bulletin, Mirror, News, Press...
...newspapers, against the wishes of his family. He used on his masthead the phrase: "The public be served." Within two years, his tabloids (in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami) went bankrupt (TIME, May 10, 1926, et seq.]. Vanderbilt IV then functioned as special writer for the Hearst New York Mirror, appealed to the masses with sneering remarks about his family's plutocratic mansion on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan...