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Referring to reports that he had visited a seaside resort: "I certainly was in Noordwyk-on-Sea with my wife, naturally with the consent of the Dutch Government. We visited Count Bentinck and my Adjutant, Ilseman. I did not play tennis, nor did I win a prize...
Baden-Baden, long a favorite resort for sports and the baths, is a city of hotels and railroad facilities. The year's Mozart Festival was held there in June. People railroaded quickly there from all parts of Germany. Many Americans came from Paris over very convenient transporting lines. The resort is just across the military lines which the French have established in Germany, but the state of semi-war did not impede their travel to the Mozart Festival...
...special session of Congress. As for what they will do when Congress assembles, that also is extremely dubious. They will form an active and vociferous minority. They will cause trouble because the "regular" Republicans lack a working majority in the Senate, and because the Democrats will probably resort to political sabotage to increase their chances in the next election. But the insurgents have no panacea to offer the farmer. Nor is their voting power equal to their vocal power...
...examinations. It has to be hammered into their heads, and without such a drastic process would never get in at all. But it more attention were paid to helping students learn how to organize their studies, how to systematize and analyse their work, fewer men would resort to "cramming" schools and undergraduates would get out of their studies more than they do now. New York Times...
Andy Gump, a rancher at Scots' Mills, near Salem, Ore., announced that he will resort to the courts " to protect the dignity of his honorable name." Only recently has, he learned that a fictitious comic character of the same name has been a source of income to cartoonists, and that his patronymic no longer commands the respect that it once did. Said he in a letter to the ex-police chief of his home town: " I want it understood that I am a God-fearing man and will protect my rights...