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...contorted face of the one-armed man was seen to be made of flour sacking. Into the belly of the effigy a pin was stuck supporting a sheet of paper with the words: "Dr. Elwood Mead" [U. S. Commissioner of Reclamation]. The other horrible object bore the legend: "Dr. Hubert Work [U. S. Secretary of the Interior]. For breaking his word and depriving a project of water...
...object lesson to all comers they were left hanging until, later, a constable cut them down...
...committee in charge expects to increase the number of books obtained to over 2000 copies. This year the Loan Library supplied 1560 text books to students at a charge of five cents each. The principal object of the drive is to obtain standard text books for college courses, although gifts of other books will be welcomed also...
...assumption of the seriousness of the situation For the fictious opponent of the Retired Humorist, namely, Mr. Liberal Broad, does not, in this set debate, attempt to repute the allegation that college comics have "but two sources of inspiration, bootleg liquor and an unbridled sex motive". Nor does he object to the pernicious use on the adjective "freuent," applied to suppression by postal officials. He does not even suggest that postal officials are poor judges. Evidently Mr. Liberal Broad, does no., is a man of straw, capable only of trite generalization upon the questionable premise assumed by his adversary, that...
Cardinal Vaini, passing his 80th year among a gardenful of hobbling rabbits and the brilliant pagan writers of the new century, at his sequestered villa on the Janiculum, is an object of fear and reverence to the Vatican, of warmest affection to the Cabala. As a brilliant young theologian, he shocked his teachers by burying himself in China, a missionary with a pigtail. He built a cathedral and by sheer force of statistics won first a mitre, then the Hat. A pistol bullet fired near him by ecstatic Mile, de Morfontaine puts him in mind of how the faith...