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...grand jury, which convicted one Jesse Favre for the same murder, had refused to return a bill against Jackson (a white man). A jury's stupidity meant little to the hundred gentlemen. They waited outside the jail while two of their number opened the outer gate with acetylene torches-then the inner gate, then the door of Jackson's cell. The torch glare leaped into his eyes as he started...
SHIFTING from dramatic satire, George Kelly, the author of "The Torch Bearers and "The Show off" has entered the field of comedy with gusto in his latest play. "Craig's Wife...
Three enterprising and grateful Swiss immigrants have asked the Government for permission to construct a wrist watch for the Statue of Liberty, an especially, proportioned luminous dial on the arm that holds the torch. Diverting new symbolism the Statue will bear if the project is permitted. Not that Liberty will be marking time, on the contrary it will be up to the minute. To the scornful who jibe at our national efficiency, the watch will mean that we are a nation of time-servers, but others will find different interpretations. Kager-gazing foreigners will see at least one sign which...
...over two columns "the more notable wedding presents" which poured in when his immense wealth was rendered fabulous by his marriage* to Hannah, only daughter and heiress of Baron Meyer Amschel de Rothschild, in the presence of the Prince of Wales and many another. Mr. Gladstone passed on the torch of Liberalism to Lord Rosebery as perhaps his chief henchman, and from him it descended via Mr. Asquith to David Lloyd George. By way of picturesque funereal climax, the Earl of Rosebery served as pallbearer to Mr. Gladstone, to poet Tennyson, to painter Millais...
...inspiration to the end of his days. But the social values are realized not because of, but in spite of, the conditions of his life in Cambridge. These men are the future professors of American colleges and universities, through whom the tradition of leadership as well as the torch of knowledge are passed from generation to generation of American youth. It is difficult to imagine anything more important than that such men should acquire the liberality of mind and personal qualities that are bred by gracious human intercourse at the same time that they acquire the learning that is bred...