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Should anyone scent something fishy about this sudden outburst of business optimism in the land of the cod where the Republican party fought its primary on the prohibition issue let him turn to the editorial page of the party journals in Boston. Prohibition is no longer the great question in the Massachusetts elections, these papers announce, and furthermore they caution that to vote a Democratic ticket on the Prohibition issue is to close the door in the face of on-coming good times...
Propped up in bed a short while before his final, sudden relapse into coma, Lord Birkenhead scanned London papers, learned that he was "now almost recovered from his long illness." He died believing he would soon be well. His doctors, who had authorized the too optimistic early bulletin, issued a final one, brief, explicit...
...every minute shared that uniform wish-to see him hit the ball. To see him win the fourth and final event of his tremendous campaign to take all four major championships of the world in one year-or to be on hand if some freak of luck, or the sudden spurt of an inferior opponent put him out-these were minor considerations. They did not expect to see him play his best golf, for great golf develops only under pressure, and there is no amateur in the world who stands a chance with Jones six days in seven...
Half way through the soup course, with the high table still vacant of occupants, the diners were plunged into sudden darkness when the lights, which some few moments before had shown a slight uncertainty, went out. This apparently unforeseen failure of the electricity coincided with the entrance of President Lowell, who mounted the platform, a lighted candle in either hand. In another moment the lighting problem had been solved and into the once more gleaming dining room entered the associates of the House. Professor Coolidge the guests of honor, and in the rear, the members of the undergraduate committee. Dinner...
...diabetic] people who owe their lives to Dr. Banting. Am I not right, when I add, he wears with becoming humility, the crown of immortality?" Throughout the long day Professor Banting said scarcely a word. He may have been thinking, as many of his lauders were, of his sudden flight to prestige. Dates best mark that progress...