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...speaker of the Assembly, governor, presidential aspirant. The lower East Side sang "The Sidewalks of New York"; mothers kissed smudgy-faced ragamuffins who wanted to be "Al" Smiths when they grew up. Now Governor Smith is running for a fourth term on an out-and-out Wet platform, and Wall Street is betting five to two that he will be elected. If he is, the Democrats in .1928 will again have to battle over the name of Alfred Emanuel Smith, beaming actor, militant Wet, popular Governor...
Curling Atlantic waves swept in one morning last week over the long sand dunes on the sea coast just above Bordeaux. Occasionally a wave burst over the sea wall, spattered with tingling droplets an old man who sat hunched upon a bench, staring seaward. Grey skies shrouded the 85th birthday of Georges Eugene Adrien Clemenceau...
Peter, called "The Great," died in his sullen city on the swamp. His beard then took its revenge and sprouted violently under the coffin lid; in time it, too, grew tired. Meanwhile the rug that had carried the forgiveness of Persia hung upon the wall of Leopold I, Sovereign under the Holy Roman Empire, and King of Hungary. Two weeks ago a Scotch art dealer landed in Manhattan. He had a trunk with him. The rug was in the trunk...
...last Mrs. Wilson was driven to the railway station, there to entrain for Vienna. Upon the station wall a brooding portrait is cut in high relief. The long ascetic face, the level academic brow, the expression care-worn but purposeful, are familiar to Mrs. Wilson. Pausing for a moment she commended the likeness...
...evening the crowd had come trickling in. You showed your ticket at a brass gate in the stucco wall of the Sesqui-Centennial, a mile from the stadium. Between the Centennial Gate and the Stadium long narrow buses with red lights, electric motors and canvas roofs plied to and fro, silent as lizards. They were crowded. Diplomats, politicians, millionaires, sailors, Negroes, sportsmen went by. Vincent Richards, the tennis player, and his wife, and a raincoat. A huge black preacherman in a woman's straw hat. Mortimer Schiff. Mayor Walker...