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...Press generally accorded Oracle Coolidge and his article great acclaim. There was much comment on "sound judgment," "good sense," "sage counsel." Editorial writers heartily welcomed Mr. Coolidge into their profession, but urged him to relax, to reveal some of his proverbial...
Families. "Biologists see no danger to the race in the childlessness of the so-called 'better' classes."?Joanna C. Colcord, Russell Sage Foundation...
Henry Bradford Washburn: Dean of the Episcopal Theological School, sympathetic by nature, broad in outlook, and sage in counsel...
...scene is laid in an inn, during an ear-splitting thunderstorm, to which a prattling, sleepy-eyed sage (Actor Cohan) comes for shelter. Subsequent activities, which include robbery, violent quarreling, gunfire, are sometimes burlesqued, sometimes played "straight," never consistently acted. Once Actor Cohan comes down to the footlights and soliloquizes to the effect that everyone in the world is an actor, that he alone is a spectator, that some day he will meet the Great Author. Spectators take this to be in dead earnest, applaud loudly. Sole orthodox comic part is played by Joseph Allen in the role he created...
...cheer. This was time for fun and feasting, flout all thought of foolish fear. But a monarch of the forest flung his head in furious rage, Naught he cared for sovereign sahib, sought some foe now to engage; While the crowd in panic parted, perilled pundits sought a sage. . . . Through the throng just then there thundered, Than upon his tawny steed. Here the crowd went wild with clamor, dauntless courage met their need; Cameleer charging onward, urged his camel to high speed. Elephant raging, saw his coming, cowed, careened and fled in haste, Trumpeted loudly, sought the river, riven ears...