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In the leisurely days when the U. S. Supreme Court was housed in the Capitol basement and fashionable ladies flocked to it every afternoon to listen and admire, legalites like Henry Clay and Daniel Webster got off some of their finest flights of eloquence at its bar. Nowadays, the nine...
(5 of 6) more tact and more charm which was to stand him in good stead when his diplomatic career began again. Nowadays Mrs. Phillips is rated rather snobbish, but obstinate would be a better word for it. She refuses to wear glasses although she is so shortsighted that she...
Lashing out at Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the present National Government, Lord Snowden railed: "If they had been firmer before this year, Italy never would have started her Ethiopian conquest. . . . Their policy was lukewarm and wavering. . . . If Sir John Simon had any sense of the pitiable failure he...
Nowadays the San Carlo master rarely travels with the performers, prefers to drop in on them when least expected. On one such occasion he arrived in New Orleans during a matinee, met the company harpist ambling along the streets. The player tried to explain that the opera was Rigoletto, that...
Like the live stock exhibitors and carnival people, the trotting racers and speed car drivers make all the Fairs. Nowadays the auto races are three times as popular as the trotters, for the artful speedsters have learned to go through fences without injury, are able to provide a breath-taking...