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...solemn, strong, sober; as a leader he is cool, discreet, able. In politics he is a staunch Unionist, and an unbending Imperialist, has "no foolish fastidiousness about democratic principles." As an orator he is a failure, but as a man of action he is "a national asset." Two un-Irish features stand out in his physiognomy and character; he has an egg-shaped head with eyes deep set and far apart; he is "an Irishman without a sense of humor...
...press, which must to some extent be a reflection of public intelligence, varies in ratio to the mentality of the public which each newspaper serves. Thus, some 18 years ago, while some of the press gave restrained and sober accounts of the Thaw case, the gum-chewers' sheets ranted ad nauseum about the pitfalls on the Great White Way; the "wages of sin"; the wily, wicked life of White; the uselessness of Thaw; the warning to young girls; the eternal law of Justice which prompted Thaw to avenge his wife's honor; the pathetic face of Mrs. Evelyn...
...Hutchinson, "Sea Wrack," received from American reviewers a remarkable "press," in which the word "powerful" outdistanced all other adjectives in number of times used. The new novel is described as a romance, and opens with the kidnaping of a young Englishman who has been brought up sober, diligent and respectable, and his carrying off to sea to be made a pirate on the very evening of the day he is made a small partner with his old employer. The kidnaper claims to be his father, very certainly is a villain--but he knows how to appreciate a "tall ship...
...Idler", Radcliffe's dramatic club, has presented Sierra's "Cancione de Cuna" at Agassiz Theatre. To the drama itself there is no great excitement. But the performance is evidently intended more to depict the sober, melancholy life of the Roman Cathlotic Sisterhood, than to act out a gripping love story...
...Other points made in language more sober and staid were...