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...pride when he said it? a Corsican. His grandfather, his own father's father, had been a cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte! His surname, once Buonfiglio? "good son" in feud-loving Corsica ?had become gallicized into Bonfils. He had attended West Point but left hurriedly. Corsicans, cousins of Napoleon, resent discipline. He had come West, flash and dapper, intent on a killing; and now he was already a legend. He was the Fred G. Bonfils who had lately cleaned out of Kansas City with $800,000 and no holes in his skin. That was who he was, Fred G. Bonfils...
...other Coolidge liabilities, there is the inherent feebleness of the man himself, the admitted fact that he is largely a combination of machine support, party propaganda and accident. There is the further fact that Old Guard leaders cordially dislike him personally and resent the accident that projected him into the White House and enabled him to be nominated in 1924. But for the death of Mr. Harding no one would ever have seriously suggested Mr. Coolidge for the Presidency. The fact is he was so negligible a quantity that he might easily have failed for renomination as Vice President...
...marital relations are revealed in sundry characters of a popular-priced brothel. None other than Estelle Winwood plays his uncertain spouse. She also plays the Hungarian Rhapsody on a player-piano that in one performance, at least, failed to synchronize with her fingers. Such embarrassments, eve r-p resent threats in the theatre, are sometimes boons to bored audiences. Future performances should refine the generally crude staging; but it is doubtful whether the play, as written, can ever succeed in expressing with even moderate success, the cleverly conceived theme...
...column on the day previous Mr. Brisbane had declared: "We are as unfit as Haiti to fight a modern nation." On six consecutive days, Mr. Brisbane, whose mass-public does not resent repetition of ideas, repeated the alarm...
...under the title of "Les Majeste. I feel as many others of your readers do, to my knowledge, that such discreditable rubbish is a distinct reflection upon the good taste of your subscribers as well as yourself and is an act of disloyalty which it is our duty to resent. The article seems to me to be the quality of the stuff which is characteristic of a yellow journal but entirely out of character for your magazine and its editors...