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Sometimes a by-election is important; but, when a Government such as Mr. Baldwin's has the support of 'an overwhelming vote in the House of Commons, a by-election rarely casts a shadow over the political world, and the man-in-the-street is left stone cold...
...Presidential mail bag?a great leathern pouch holding two bushels of mail, that has served for nearly 25 years and went to President Taft at Beverly and President Wilson at Shadow Lawn?arrived with its first load of documents...
...screen, a shadow flickered?a shadow with feet like boxcars and a smile like the last soliloquy of Hamlet. He was a tenderfoot. The date was the year of Our Lord 1896?a period in which gentlemen were proud to spend several thousand dollars of lousy paper money to dig up a couple of ounces of mica "in the Klondike. ... A blizzard. A straggling company of ragged monte-banks passing through a wintry defile; Chilkoot Pass. Chaplin left behind in the dash for gold, blown to the door of a lonely cabin. Does the hearty Westerner within open his door...
...York policeman, whose courage is equalled only by his tenderness for small children. He saves a crippled child, woos a pretty school teacher-a society girl with a lost taste for dances and teas-catches the wicked bootleggers in an exhibition of acrobatic agility, comes under a shadow in which he loses his star, and otherwise goes direct to the deepest emotions of an unsophisticated soul...
...match on the Worcester links this morning will be watched with keen interests by sport lovers the world over. Everyone loves a winner and especially one who starts off badly and recoups himself in the very shadow of defeat. Jone's record, whether he wins or loses, will always be remembered in golf history...