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...laced boots and ten-gallon hat, motored ten miles to a backwoods cabin where a Dr. W. B. Hodge, one Clyde Moorehead and one Wirt Hatcher, practiced gunners, awaited him with four setter dogs. The President patted the dogs, loaded his gun, marched into the scrub-oak and broom-sage. Hosts, guides and detectives followed, gunless...
...death, disease, sorrow. His inheritance was the ancient Vedantic philosophy (man is soul, and has a body that must be subjugated); his contribution was the forging of the middle way between pleasure and self-mortification by which man ascends the Mount of Vision. Confucius, Ancient Teacher, Perfect Sage, "has river eyes and a dragon fore head ... his arms are long, his back is like a tortoise . . . when he speaks he praises the ancient kings. He moves along the path of humility and courtesy. He has heard of every subject. . . . His knowledge of things seems inexhaustible." He edited the ancient classics...
...famed Hindu doctrine that thou shalt not kill even a bug-much less a human-was sensationally reinterpreted last week, by the potent ascetic, sage and saint, Mahatma Gandhi...
...Probably the greatest demonstrations ever accorded a Democratic presidential candidate in normally Republican southern New England attended Gov. Smith's pas sage...
...Rung, Oberlin B. A. 1906, Yale M. A. 1907, Oberlin Honorary LL.D. 1926, is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius (most revered Sage of China), and also a brother-in-law of President Chiang...