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...American statesmanship that first threw out the idea which has fructified in the Dawes scheme. That scheme has thus been sure from the start of the good wishes of the American people. But it is now the adopted instrument of the American Government. The U.S. is at this moment definitely and officially associated with the task of applying it. She has what she has not had before, a Governmental stake in its success...
...Tsar Alexander II. was driving along the bank of the St. Michael Canal wren a young man threw what appeared to be a snowball at the Imperial sledge. The snowball went off with a thundering detonation, the carriage was shattered, two men of the Tsar's escort were killed outright, many were wounded; but Alexander escaped scot-free...
...Quite without warning a group of previously undistinguished actors chipped the shell off a hard boiled comedy and threw it in most amusing pieces to a greedy and appreciative audience. It was not the type of appreciation that Mr. Hampden or Mrs. Fiske would prize; it was the type of laughter whose artistic values are confined solely to the green and yellow curlicues which decorate U. S. Government currency...
...would take long for him to get to first base; but he is paid money, this dilapidated curmudgeon, for one distinguishing asset-the length of his nose. He smells news as a hound smells an opossum. He drew a circle in red crayon around the advertisement of Mr. Slack, threw it in a basket, sent it to the City Editor, who handed it to a Bright Young Reporter. To Stamford, Conn., hastened the B. Y. R. His nostrils quivered also. Headmaster Slack was the opossum. Next day, in the great daily, appeared a front-page headline: "PREP SCHOOL CUTS RATE...
...Munn thinks he is going to get that diamond belt* he is mistaken, for he should have been fouled out of the bout when he threw Lewis from the ring...