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...about fifty. Height, about six feet. Of commanding yet gracious presence. Occupation, a successful lawyer and farmer. Means, a competency, every cent of which was made in unexceptionable pursuits, from untainted clients. Health, perfect, signalized by the ability to box with Muldoon, ride with W. S. Hart and eat anything. Oratory, colorful yet dignified, a pleasing compromise between the stilted phraseology of Webster and the poetic nights of Prentiss. Ethnology, Scotch-English- Irish-German, the united product of grandparents named McGregor, Lee, O'Brien and Schurz. Public Record, after business and farming success, terms as Governor, United States Senator...
...Wembley Exhibit, English craftsmanship is again a British glory -beauty and care of execution in the applied arts compensating for the noticeable lack of imagination and emotional power in the so-called fine arts. The Queen's Doll House (TIME, Oct. 29) is a huge and delicious toy, perfect to the last minute detail. The art of bookmaking touches the highwater mark in the artistic display, perfect in taste and in texture. Decorated interiors, varying in merit, may be observed in six rooms, one of 1750 with Reynolds and Gainsborough portraits, a Handel duet on the table...
...Perfect Flapper. Colleen Moore depicts a girl who discovers she's too good to be popular. To overcome this she goes the pace according to the well-established cinema formula. Eventually she is saved by an upstanding young lawyer (Frank Mayo), after she has fallen down a chimney and thus had sense shaken into her. There is a novel scene of high jinks aboard a house being moved bodily through the streets, and Sydney Chaplin is fairly diverting in an inebriated state in a standard roadhouse...
...crew was large enough to work in two shifts, and though the Commander himself had but one hour's sleep, every one else arrived in perfect condition, with the ship working admirably right up to the end of the journey...
...sense of the irreducible social minima, and a praiseworthy spirit of noblesse oblige; or it may be a vague present satisfaction of future desires, a faint, presaging indication of that moral awakening which in the opinion of a prominent school of psychological thought the final development of the perfect mind...