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...people purred contentedly at being thus addressed. Scarred thugs in saloons; bleary night crowds in Porto Rico; hawk-eyed Indians in New Mexican hovels; gentlewomen in staid mansions in Buffalo, N. Y.?all leaned forward eagerly...
...These attacks attracted attention. The staid New York Times editorialized: "If we are to measure out condemnation for cowardly bomb-throwers, we should not overlook men like Mr. Heywood Broun who asks in the World whether 'The institution of learning in Cambridge which we once called Harvard will be known as Hangman's House?' " *The World has not been sympathetic with the Sacco-Vanzetti prosecution...
...Collection of modern art are Albert C. Barnes himself, the Barnes foundation and the A. C. Barnes Co., Philadelphia chemists, out of which the Barnes Collection grew. Albert C. Barnes is the sort of person who gets himself called, variously, "crazy nut," "queer fish," "genius." His personality has exasperated staid Philadelphians quite as often as his paintings have upset academicians of the school of fine arts at the University of Pennsylvania, whose senior member called them "rot" in 1923, after Mr. Barnes had endowed a chair in the school. Dr. Barnes, in short, is a person who couples action with...
...from Co lumbia, Ga., to Chicago, "on the last legs of a globe-girdling tour during which he has converted more than 100,000 men and wo men." He will open the three-day golden jubilee of his conversion with a mass meeting at the staid First Congregational Church in Oak Park, Ill., where the Rev. William E. Barton, father of advertising man Bruce Barton, had long been pastor. Gypsy Smith has a son, Gypsy Jr., who is also saving souls...
...MARRIAGE without obstacles isn't tempting . . ." wrote the playwright. And now marriage with all its obstacles is even less tempting. Count Keyserling, in his symposium, The Book of Marriage, raises no new cry, stampedes no staid world, but comes instead to a world in chaos, and to a subject of the greatest controversial significance, bringing with him the judgment of "twenty four leaders of contemporary thought...