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...ineptitude" of Sir Auckland Geddes (onetime [ 1920-24 ] British Ambassador at Washington), the "tender bosom" of Winston Churchill (Chancellor of the Exchequer), the "ignorance, stupidity or arrogance" of the British Commonwealth of Nations-all were last week rebuked by a patriotic U. S. woman-Miss Sophy Stanton, moderately famed granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War, Edwin McMasters Stanton...
These are questions now being asked in Washington, D. C., and many an asker has also his answer. For rumor persists that Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg will shortly tender his resignation, that Ambassador Charles MacVeagh will be named as his successor. Tale-spreaders maintain also that Secretary Kellogg's continued ill health may in itself constitute a reason for his resignation...
...aged 34, who had lately lost his mother. This is not church ritual but the inner feeling of people like ourselves. Come, let us understand." They wanted to stand up and cheer at the intermission after the third movement, but he bade them wait, with a gesture, until the tender parable of mortality should be rounded with the exalted parable of resurrection-"Blessed - are the dead which die in the Lord." They waited, meditated, applauded thoughtfully, gave Conductor Furtwangler a wreath and went home full of peace instead of excitement. Perhaps they would see him again in a year; perhaps...
Most mothers overflow with pride when their infant sons begin to toddle across the room from chair to chair at the tender age of ten months. Last week in Chicago, little Harmon Loeb, aged five weeks, walked unaided across a room. Dr. Carl Loeb sees in his son's feat no miracle, says.: "We bathe Harmon every day for ten or fifteen minutes in ultraviolet rays [which] help the blood absorb the calcium in food, thereby building bone. The baby is given a series of exercises three times a day designed to strengthen the muscles . . . sleeps on a bread...
...rising generation of Spaniards, suffering from the taunts of soft tender-hearted foreigners, has objected. They wish their bullfights; they wish the bull to attack the horse; but they will accept an attack involving less gore, less evisceration. To this end horses have been provided with experimental steel armor, led into rings, offered to angered bulls. But from the standpoint of all (save the horses) steel armor has been a failure. The bulls have refused to bruise their horns against the unyielding protection...