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...Elks and the Moose having refused to buy the 15 buildings of Valparaiso University, at Valparaiso, Ind., to save the University from financial collapse, the buildings have been offered to the Ku Klux Klan in solemn Konklave at Kokomo. In the meantime Henry K. Brown, formerly President, son of the founder, and member of the realty company which owns all the stock in the school, has commenced proceedings to regain control of the buildings. The Invisible Empire says nothing...
...models in professional hilarity. He takes his post in the Winter Garden where the current Passing Show unrolls its gorgeous length. The screaming point is reached when one Roy Cummin gs, in the manner of a concert tenor, walks slowly from the wings, heaving with the impending agony of solemn singing. He opens his mouth for the first rush of song?and falls on his face. The audience dissolves in tears of frantic delight...
...Times: "On an appropriate morning, since this is Independence Day, the English speaking public of two hemispheres will read of the solemn ceremony at which the tablet was unveiled to the memory of the great American Ambassador. . . . There is a date of supreme importance to the calendar of Anglo-Sax-ondom more recent than that of Independence Day, and it is that one on which America entered the War and threw herself into the struggle for right and justice...
...China the ancient and honorable game of Mah Jongg is used to settle many disputes and problems. More than one man has, by being careless with an East Wind, found himself sitting in solemn silence in the dull, dark dock of a pestilential prison with a lifelong lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock of a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block...
...possible, of course, for a man occupying a high public position to hold opinions unbiased by political main chances. But in the present case, after a continuously rumbling presidential boom, after the frequent closeted conferences at which "nothing of a political nature was discussed", after the solemn prognostications of political seers as to the effect of the governor's approval or veto, the evidence is strong that his opinion was political as well as personal. And yet his approval would seem highly impolitic unless Governor Smith has a keener eye than most men. To secure the Democratic nomination...