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Greenmantle Cloth Bound, Path of the King 90? and $1.25 Thirty-Nine Steps Leather Bound, Three Hostages $1.75 Gap in the Curtain...
Jack Buchan, in his romantic novels like The Path of the King, successfully flatters his middle-class public and also their beloved sovereign with such turns as: "We may all of us have King's blood in our veins. The Dago who blacked my boots in Vancouver may be descended in some roundabout way from Julius Caesar. . . . And we fools rub our eyes and wonder when we see genius come out of the gutter! It did not begin there . . . Shakespeare . . . Napoleon . . . who knows what kings and prophets they had in their ancestry...
...gentlemen in Washington is that they have never had to meet a Saturday night payroll." The Hearst Universal Service promptly got behind Publisher Hearst's man, recalled Governor Landon's 25% reduction of State salaries in 1933, headlined: LANDON SAVES $100,000,000. "They are beating a path to the door of the Kansas Governor," cried Universal Service, "who has lifted the burden from his people. Financiers, economists, authors, writers and statesmen have poured into Topeka in endless procession. . . . Taxpayers from the Atlantic to the Pacific have besieged Landon with requests to come and tell 'how Kansas...
Outside Plains, Mont., E. C. Major's flock of sheep stampeded into the path of a locomotive, were hurled over the landscape, mowing down and killing Herder Major...
...other courses could bring this appreciation down to earth, so that it meant something in the surroundings of graduates not in museums only, but in their homes and clubs and offices as well, the expensive Museum and Department would justify themselves completely. Collecting as a natural and desirable path through which to lead students to this kind of interest and appreciation...