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...liberty with its mob-slaughter, lynching and stake-burnings, and finally into the hope and comprehensions of a new day. This graphic recitation was to show that Henry Sweet, Negro accused of murder, was the unconscious victim of ancient racial inheritances, that when he knelt before a window in his brother's house and fired he had done it in utterance of primitive antipathies. A bullet had pierced fatally one Leon E. Breiner, a citizen seated in his rocking chair at his home across the street, chatting and smoking his pine, peacefully white...
...bird song, studying in books and teaching out of them become burdensome. At young ladies' seminaries and colleges, undergraduates then have dreams and ideas more mature than the oldest wight on earth, and their greying mistresses are stirred by impulses of an age with the buds outside the window. Wherefore an old pagan custom is then revived, its original nature made innocent by thousands of springs. The Maypole is erected. Virgins dance in white fluttering things. A Queen of the May or of Beauty is crowned with a garland. Or a play of long ago is acted...
...Romantic Young Lady tells, curiously enough, the story of a romantic young lady. She dreams and sees visions after the manner of romantic young ladies. And then one day in at her open window blows the hat of her favorite novelist. The rest of the play concerns itself with her disintegrating illusion in the face of facts in the matter...
Because of this universal tendency, the world is doubly grateful to Amundsen, who gave free admission to his private fight with the elements. By the help of radio and newspaper, many a stay-at-home has gotten a taste of Arctic exploration causing him to shut the window on the warmest of May days...
Died A. Leonard Beekman, 29, onetime (1914-19) Princeton tennis player, onetime ranked among the second ten U.S. players; in Manhattan, after dropping from an eleventh story bathroom window...