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...Significance. There is a supposition that Nana, Naturalist Zola's novel, includes some Menken escapades. Nana, one of the realest characters of all fiction, lives and breathes lustily for present-day readers while Adah Menken, who lived just as lustily, pulsates feebly in Author Oursler's sentimental brief. Yet whether or not the "spirit" he discusses is more Oursler than Menken, Author Oursler has succeeded in writing the first book about a U.S. figurine no less famed in her day than Isadora Duncan, Aimee Semple MacPherson, Peggy Hopkins Joyce...
...connection with present-day Scribner's, which was founded...
...they do not describe themselves as "banks," do not accept deposits that at any time run under $500,? do not transmit money or negotiate notes. The $500 minimum deposit regulation (passed in 1914) is supposed to keep widows, orphans and other "small" depositors out of such banking houses. Present-day prosperity permits many to save $500 without having good banking judgment. Because Clarke Bros, conducted a private banking business, they have been erroneously described as a private bank. A private bank is really an entirely different kind of institution. It is fully supervised. It carries on a restricted, specialized...
...Tower of London marched through the cellars of Parliament. Carrying halberds and horn lanterns they poked in crannies, peered in corners. The purpose of this search was to look for Guy Fawkes, a gentleman who, one Nov. 4, tried to blow up Parliament, but who, to the comfort of present-day "Beefeaters," has been dead since...
...college sports. He finds that it is. Well, perhaps the enthusiasm in the stands "ain't what it used to be," but that does not mean that a supreme effort on the part of Captain Reid's team would not be appreciated in a quiet manner by the present-day undergraduates. On paper the die is cast against Harvard; on the cinders, in the shot, discuss and hammer circles and in the jumping and vaulting pits the story may be something else again. Everlasting enthusiasm and spirit has been crowned by success in the past...