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Tasmania is a chunky little island lying just below the Australian continent's nether tip. In Tasmania rugged Mr. Lyons worked up from State Treasurer (1914-16) to State Premier (1923-28), acquiring a reputation for honesty and a grasp of budget arithmetic. Three years ago he was merely...
In the early days of the Hohenzollerns Prussia was a rugged country and fair to see. Fogs blew up off the Baltic and settle down over the hills. Great baronial estates sprawled over the land. Fat cattle dwelt in the fields, and tall grass swayed in the winds. There lived...
Died. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, 52, famed poet (A Handy Guide for Beggars, The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems, Rhymes to be Traded for Bread, Every Soul is a Circus); of heart disease; in Springfield, Ill. Born into a pioneer Springfield family (he was later to become preoccupied with local history...
On Dec. 9, 1531, a lowly Indian named Quauhtlatohua left his home in Cuauhtitlan to go to mass in Tlaltelolco. His name had been changed at baptism to Juan Diego. As he passed by the barren, rugged hill of Tepeyac, site of old Aztec shrines which the Spaniards had overthrown...
Poet Putnam closes his rugged, colorful work with a Hymn to Chance: