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...strange career: in politics a swift climax and a slow diminuendo; in religion a growing autserity; and a sudden termination. His invalid wife sent his chauffeur to call him from his rest and found him resting forever, stricken in an afternoon nap by the bursting of a blood-vessel in his brain as he was preparing to launch on another crusade for Fundamentalism against Evolution, dead on the scene of his last combat, at Dayton, with his last great speech unmade...
Alton B. Parker: "I don't care to make any statement. This is too sudden...
This list of payers-up should soon grow longer. Belgium recently announced her intention of sending a debt-funding commission to this country in July. Last week, Italy decided to beat Belgium?annouced she would be gin similar negotiations on June 25. Because of her sudden haste, Italy will not be able to get a debt commission to this country by the time she set?probably Ambassador de Martino will rep resent his country at the opening of negotiations...
...sudden, but it was not dramatic, for it was not prepared for. Senator LaFollette was ill with a cold at his home in Washington. The country hardly noted the fact. Then swiftly came a bulletin telling of his death from angina pectoris complicated by bronchial asthma and pneumonia. Only that and the event had passed, like the flicker of a cinema film...
...however, with the characteristic determination of the Bull Dog refused to accept the odium of defeat and struggled on to a tied score at 4-4, with the outcome of the match between Whitbeck and Ingraham and Jones and Watson still in the air at a set apiece. A sudden squall of rain, when the players were about to start their final set, ended all thought of further play, and the decision was reserved for the Intercollegiates at Philadelphia...