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...usual, the prime issue when Missouri held its primaries. On an anti-Pendergast platform William Hirth, longtime head of the Missouri Farmers' Association, ran hard & fast after the Democratic nomination for Governor, but not hard & fast enough to prevent Boss Pendergast's man. Major Lloyd Crow Stark of Louisiana. Mo. from winning, 3-to-1. Even the fact that Major Stark, a famed nurseryman whose family originated "Stark's Delicious" apple, had never before run for office could not keep the Pendergastians from an overwhelming victory...
...Paul's Cathedral in London, 1,000 worshippers gawped when a shapely young woman of 25 walked to the altar, threw off a long cloak, knelt stark naked, was hustled out. In Rome where Pope Pius XI remained in ailing privacy Easter was the quietest in years. In Moscow, 60,000 die-hard citizens, oldish and mostly women, packed the city's 28 surviving churches...
...space to World Peaceways advertisements, even the "HELLO SUCKER" ad which prompted that tinhorn outburst from the Legion's ballyhoo director. Rather, "good U. S. citizens stand . . . united" in applauding the timely courage and vision that has prompted World Peaceways, assisted by FORTUNE et al., to picture the stark horror of war and what it does to those who fall its victims...
...most part his work gives the impression of crudeness of execution, notably "Falls at Scheffelhausen", which might almost be called modernistic in its conception; its harsh dynamic lines suggest symbolism or impressionism. "Pass of Faido" seems dark, stark, and dreary, and is painted in dull grey and browns. "Looking down from Florence toward Lucca" is Ruskin's sole really vivid contribution; done with sweeping dabs of blue and green, it is startling and very effective...
...morning after the full flush of victory some one must reckon up the bill, for, in sober deliberation, events once rosy take on the stark grimness of reality. True, dangers of the paths are now abolished, but at the sacrifice of an undergraduate prerogative which except for the heart-rending interregnum of the Lowell regime has lasted since Lallement got his patent in 1866. In the wink of an eye a tradition of three-quarters of a century is brought crashing to the ground...