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...Bronx, N. Y. because he thought his name was "a drawback socially and sounded un-American," Hubertus Ralph Theodore Roosevelt Kretzschmar had it changed to Ralph Theodore Roosevelt...
...earth to sink and let me go through." The brain disease to which Biographer Sandburg attributes most of Mary Lincoln's shrewishness finally became too much for her; in 1875 her family had her committed to a sanatorium in Batavia, Ill. Set free a year later, she wandered un happily abroad, came home, hid in her sister's house in Springfield to wait for a leisurely death...
Only last week in New York, a large group known as the "Association of Un appointed Teachers" stormed the State Board of Education demanding that they be given jobs. Not is this in any way an exceptional case. Recently a survey was taken of sixty-five educational schools throughout the country which showed that only one half of the graduates have obtained positions this fall. Yet a third of these teachers have doctors' degrees and another third have masters' degree...
...Rogers Group was a standard fitting in the parlors of U. S. Respectability. With the colored lithographs of Currier & Ives and wax flowers under glass bells, they marked the sunrise of artistic appreciation in the country. The Rogers Group had a ritual position in the U. S. home as un varying as the ikon opposite the door of pre-War Russia. It stood in the bay win dow, between the Nottingham lace curtains, where it could be seen from the street. Most of the 87 groups were modeled by Sculptor Rogers with this in mind, that they might be equally...
...Sinclair the greatest contemporary writers. But he does not take into consideration the fact that the sociological conditions which brought about a novel like "Oil," which he praises very highly, have passed; it's value sociologically speaking at any rate with likewise pass. Such circumstances are too transitory, too un-universal, too ratiocinative to form a basis for great literature...