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...Schlieffen Plan, master design of Germany's attack in 1914, called for the German Armies swinging like a scythe pivoted from a point near Metz, to sweep in a wide circle through Belgium far to the westward around Paris and, still sweeping around, finally pin the French Armies against the Rhine and the Alps. Last week, they watched the execution of another plan, another swing, but a swing in the opposite direction. Pivoting at Antwerp, the scythe swept westward. Its point at Sedan swept onward to Rethel, Laon, St. Quentin. For a time it threatened to swing far enough...
...dearly loved to play common man with Käthi. She served him hearty Schnitzels and Muskatellers, gave him little pin wheels and ocarinas and beer mugs, entertained him with folk tales and Tarock-pleasures the stiff castle denied him. The severe Empress Elizabeth, who, as she bluntly put it, "was sick and tired of being brood mare to His Majesty," openly encouraged the relationship. Soon all Vienna knew of it, and approved. On the Emperor's birthday, little children would come with flowers to watch the pre-dawn passage of der alte Kaiser from his secret gate...
...editorial damnation of tutoring school practices which have taken root at Princeton in the last few years. Success promises to come rapidly in this latest campaign, with almost instant college approval and cooperation. The other programs are slower moving, but even the loudest rumblings of the "Princetonian," that king-pin of the impressive Nassau extra-curricular hierarchy, can't change things over night...
...Franklin, Ind. as the train pulled out without waiting for him); an oil painting (rural landscape in early U. S. calendar style) by Postmaster Maurice Goodwin's sister in Indianapolis; a mule-skinner's cane at Mule Day ceremonies in Columbia, Tenn., a women's club pin and philatelic relics of Pony Express days, and an Indian peace pipe, at St. Joseph, Mo.; a book, Federal Government in Kansas City; jars and jars of Texas honey; four boxes of homemade fudge wrapped in red, white & blue by the Pelahatchee, Miss, postmistress. Six Governors (Kentucky's Keen...
...Roosevelt's appointment of Myron C. Taylor as his special ambassador to the Pope. Last week Dr. Morrison had fresh ammunition-a letter from Mr. Roosevelt to Dr. George. A. Buttrick, president of the Federal Council of Churches, Dr. Buttrick, quoting a report from Rome, had tried to pin the President down as to whether Mr. Taylor had a permanent status, warned him of "a growing [Protestant] disillusionment which augurs ill for interfaith comity." Last week the Federal Council published the President's reply. Ex-Tycoon Taylor (U. S. Steel), said Mr. Roosevelt, "is in Rome...