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Glasgow, which had a stomach full of rioting fortnight ago, was quiet last week. An emollient was provided by the late Sir Thomas Lipton. In the U. S. canny Sir Thomas always stressed his Irish parentage. In his will he remembered his Scotch birth. To hospitals, infirmaries, old men's and women's homes in Glasgow went the bulk of his estate, estimated at some $3.910.000. For the immediate relief of poor mothers and their children in Glasgow went an additional $312,000. Sir Thomas was buried in Glasgow last week, beside his parents in the cemetery known...
...plain speaking, but it's the truth." Before the War and Prohibition, only the cheapest and rawest of whiskey could be bought for a nickel a drink. It was freshly distilled, acrid grain alcohol, diluted with water and colored with caramel. It contained poisonous fusel oils, seared the stomach, appealed only to the poorest of dipsomaniacs...
Thomas Alva Edison approached Death's door last week at Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N. J. as another great citizen of that State, Dwight Whitney Morrow, passed suddenly through. All summer he had been failing. At 84 he suffered from diabetes, Bright's disease, uremic poisoning and stomach ulcers. As those ailments of age dragged him down, he repeatedly spurted away from them, repeatedly got back at his work. Last week he became mentally drowsy, sank rapidly. On Monday, his physician could not promise his six children and Mrs. Edison more than two days before a crisis. The Pope twice...
...good little man with a drooping mustache, a little round head and a little round stomach was moving across Manchuria last week in a bright yellow private car, with a brand new contract in his baggage. Every time the train stopped hundreds of devout Chinese banged their heads against the sides, the window panes, the brake rods, hoping to receive virtue through their bumps. The good little man was the Panchen Lama who has sometimes been called the Buddhist Pope.* His contract was with the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek to become a public relations counselor to fight...
Author Aldington has done his job up brown: by the time he gets through with his characters there is not a single one you can stomach. Georgie is pathetic but repulsive; Purfleet is a cad; Geoffrey a fool; all the rest run the gamut of knavery and oafishness. In a supererogatory epilog Aldington underlines his tale: England is on the downgrade, nothing can help her. the War killed off the best, delivered the rest into the strangling clutch of "human weeds...