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...popularly known, it is said, as "the best-loved man in Northern Europe." He has no temporal power of office, but he has a real temporal as well as spiritual power of personality and of scholarship which has been felt throughout a considerable stretch of the earth almost as wide as the reach of his Viking forebears, who penetrated not only westward to the edges of America but eastward and southward to the further shores of the Euxine...
...their number to read to them while they worked, making their own cigars and an equal share for the reader. Sam Gompers became a favorite reader. Thereby he acquired a precise enunciation, a mellifluous voice and an effective oral interpretation of words. It also brought him a wide contact with English literature, to which he added a knowledge of the works of English and German economists...
...Carlo Company now has played for more than two weeks, and has given ample demonstration of its capabilities. Its principals are better this season than last. It retains most of its stars, some of these of wide reputation-Anna Fitziu, Alice True Gentle, Marie Rappold, Sophie Charlebois, Bianca Saroya, Manuel Salazar, Taki Miura. It has made some noteworthy additions-the tenors Tommasini and O'Moore, the soprano Consuelo Escobar. Its productions are generally " good "- voices, orchestra, chorus...
...great world if you weaken just a little" is undoubtedly one of the pernicious phrases which indicate the nation-wide slump in morals, the fearful after-math of the War. It wormed its way in to the unsuspicious midst of the Lampoon and the latter, suddenly becoming aware of this monster in a pill-box, has cast it forth with just indignation. The president in his statement certainly makes the spot on the Lampoon's scutcheon larger than it really is. To say that it had "maintained a fairly clean standard of humor, but that frequently there had been noticeable...
...nation-wide slump in morals is an aftermath of the War, in the opinion of the Lampoon's president. "We have seen it in theatres and in the publications" he said, "and the Lampoon wishes to take its place in the world, not just as another college magazine, but as a publication that will be recognized as one of the most decent as well as the most original comic magazines in the United States...