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...shock of white hair, more than 27 years' service in Congress* and the chairmanship of the Committee on Agriculture of the House make Gilbert Nelson Haugen a grand old man. Last week he had cause to celebrate. In the first place he had his birthday and entered upon his 68th year, and in the second place farm relief legislation began to pop to the fore, and farm relief is his business...
...years later he went abroad to draw the illustrations for William Dean Howell's Tuscan Cities, and remained for some time on the Continent, living in Paris, in Italy. He knew Henry James in the days when that sensitive young man was trying to recover from the shock of calling on De Maupassant and finding him, not unaccompanied, in bed. He was a friend of Whistler, whose charm had an immense influence upon him and whose acid humor was not unlike his own. He drank wine with Andrew Lang; he knew Edmund Gosse and F. Hopkinson Smith, "whose books...
Three times in about a year you have printed profanity, and it is a great shock to me to find myself repeating such language...
...with a shock that Harvard learned, the other day, that the thing they thought dead had come to life again. And what a life. The whole freshman class arrives at Cambridge on one subway train, all playing ukuleles, all munching apples, according to the saddened reviewer of the Harvard CRIMSON. All the street and traffic signs in Hollywood must have been requisitioned to adorn the students rooms. California cactus hedges are interspersed among a few authentic Harvard scenes...
Malvy. Minister of Interior Louis Malvy departed for Nice during the week, there to recuperate from the shock to his nerves caused when he was ruthlessly attacked in the Chamber (TIME, March 29) and fainted dead away. It was later rumored that he would resign. Thus M. Briand was placed in a slightly better position for conciliating the potent enemies of Malvy on the Right, who want him out of the Cabinet at all costs. His equally important friends on the Left found themselves in a position to let him slip out under the age-old cloak of diplomats, "illness...