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...Kansas City Star itself is its reputation for taboos. Its late great founder William Rockhill Nelson 50 years ago kept a list of persons who must not be mentioned in the Star's columns. Moreover, Colonel Nelson being portly, no Star cartoonist dared caricature a fat man. The present-day taboo of the Star and its morning running-mate, the Times, is less explicable, more picturesque. For reasons of his own Publisher George Baker Longan will not permit snakes to be pictured or mentioned...
...perfectly useless for a present-day Pope to act like a Pope of the earlier days and expect a second Canossa" (i. e. expect that George V will do penance before Pope Pius XI as Roman Emperor Henry IV did penance before Pope Gregory VII at Canossa, Italy...
...propagandist perennial. Lately his novel-pamphlets have preached the necessity of peace. The Autocracy of Mr. Parham, besides much Wellsian argumentation many Wellsian men of straw, gives Author Wells's parable of what will happen to the world if old-fashioned people remain in control of it. Few present-day Wells readers will be surprised that the story proper begins on Page 90, that all before that is argument, exposition, setting the text...
...keenest, and many a masculine ponderosity drew her inner smile. Said she: "I believe the love of God may be taught not to seem like bears." Unable to discover the Devil, she concluded: "He must be making war on some other nation." Her definition of poetry is famed among present-day poets: "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head was taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways...
...period between the Revolution and the Civil War is described as the Golden Age when, as Mr. Drepperd points out, there was a great demand for cheap pictures both original and reproductive. Lithographs at that time were the rotogravure supplements of our present-day Sunday newspapers. A whole chapter is devoted to a discussion of that much overrated firm of Currier & lves. From the thousands of different subjects the author weeds out a few that have some real merit and justly decries the present fancy for "Little Ellen"s and the "Darktown" series. The auction prices which be quotes...