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Also the troopships (oldtime German liners) Monticetto and Mount Vernon...
Grace. To John William Davis went the convention's honors for gracefulness. As his party's last, unsuccessful nominee, he had to mount the rostrum to resign his titular leadership of the Democracy. He did so with a smooth blend of wit, modesty and loyalty to the new Nominee...
...which then would come along the runway where an artful man sat ready. The Indian-blooded Senator from Kansas had seen the waiting game work well on race tracks, too. Riding as a jockey himself, he had watched two faster horses wear each other out, then whipped his own mount past them at the finish. Good nature and confidence are essentials in playing the waiting game and on his way to Topeka, where his watchful headquarters were to be, Candidate Curtis of Kansas said...
...celestial fire, called Conscience," recommended George Washington to his successors at the close of his public career. This advice found its correlative yesterday afternoon in the text chosen for the Baccalaureate Sermon to the graduating class in Appleton Chapel, the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, "if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness." But President Lowell made opening acknowledgement of the verity that what seems right at one time and meets the apparent approval of the conscience, "the light of the body" that is the eye, often leads to results unforeseen...
John Davison Rockefeller Jr., nursing a strained and stiffened right arm, learned that he had become the heaviest taxpayer in the U. S. on suburban real estate. His grounds at Tarrytown, North Tarrytown, Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant Townships, N. Y., were assessed at $5,588,050, calling for annual taxes of approximately $137,000. It was in his private gymnasium at Tarrytown that Mr. Rockefeller strained his right arm. He was playing volley ball against his 16-year-old son, Winthrop...