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...Kingdom of Christ if they wish their power to remain unimpaired, and their countries to prosper and progress. If princes and legitimately elected magistrates, in fact, were convinced that they command not in their own right but by the mandate of the Divine King it is easy to understand what sacred use they would make of their authority...
...urbane and well slicked Manhattan mob twittered about the famed Anderson Galleries last week and endeavored to understand the mystic symbolism hidden in the 21 large mural paintings and eight pieces of sculpture there on show. Strange forms of a significance remindful of the tortuous ideas in Novelist James Branch Cabell's Jurgen revealed themselves. Famed Etcher Joseph Pennell was loud in his praise of their originality. Much interest centred about a bust of the famed Spanish Singer Raquel Meller...
...cannot understand why you published the sentiments expressed in that letter. That you should soil the "nonsectarian, nonpartisan" pages of TIME with the "German Kultur" of Karl Busch is beyond the comprehension of any right-thinking American. It might be well to assure Busch that none of us wish to share German glory. He is apparently unable to understand that any real man will give honor where honor is due. We all respect men of the type of Baron Richthofen even though we cannot always respect the cause to which they devote themselves...
Lysistrata is of course Aristophanes' ancient comedy of feminism. The Russians have chosen to exhibit an extremely rowdy and briskly amusing version. If the police commissioner could understand it there would certainly be difficulties. But he cannot nor can much of the population, and what does anybody care about the morals of anyone so obviously peculiar as to speak Russian...
...briefest wills ever filed, he made her sole executrix of $140,000,000. None of the five Harriman children received a penny. Mrs. Harriman was careful in the education of the children. She had them taught to ride as soon as they could toddle, and never let them understand, until they reached years of discretion, that their father was more than ordinarily rich...