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...many of them authentic, hoarded up for generations by families now impecunious, and handed down along with the patent of nobility, as things to be kept in the family. In London, there has been discovered recently a reputed portrait of Shakespeare; in France a score of Millet paintings hitherto unknown have been brought out of some forgotten corner; and Murillo's "Gentleman of Seville", after languishing for a century and a quarter in a remote Irish castle, has been found, neglected, unwashed, and uncared for and now brushed up and tidy again is about to resume his rightful place...
...feature of the tournament has been the rapid rise of Dixon from an unknown quantity to the brilliant player of the late rounds. He was champion of Oxford University before coming to this country, and reached the semi-final round of the Class B Massachusetts State Tournament this winter...
...England has a haul of more than 200 miles; and most of the freight handled in New England is not from terminal to terminal, but to local points along the various lines. The trains must be made up again at almost every junction and long through freight is unknown. New England is really only a gigantic switchyard...
...setting? So long as Carlinvilles think to gain pride and pelf by putting one over on the rival Taylorvilles and the Taylorvilles copper the game; so long as stadiums are passionately desired and graduates susceptible only to the appeal pragmatical--just so long will the Middle West endure temptations unknown to the effete East...
...deliberations of the present disarmament conference in Washington were broadcasted, as they might easily be, it would be of inestimable value to mankind. The actual words of the various representatives would be infinitely more influential than the cold print of the newspaper. The occasion of the burial of the Unknown Soldier hero at Arlington cemetery recently would have been an incalculably valuable thing for humanity at large to have heard at first hand. There are a vast number of us who do not realize the bigger and better things of life. The printed page does not reach such people...