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...Goethe, but it is certainly quite as sound as Parson Weems' Life of Washington or Uncle Tom's Cabin." His concluding remarks are a typical piece of Menckenian irony: he describes a hanging he once reported, at which the Baptist prisoner loudly recited the 23d Psalm while the sheriff and the hangman were busied with the final preparations; the fall of the drop cut short the prisoner's words of praise. Says Mencken: "As an American I naturally spend most of my time laughing, but that time I did not laugh...
...West Point, whence he was graduated in 1903 at the head of his class. To the second-most-important post in the Philippines he takes a knowledge of the Islands gained there as a young officer of engineers on construction work (1903-04) and as commander of the 23d Infantry Brigade at Manila (1922-25). Since 1925 he has commanded the Third Corps Area, at Baltimore...
...pillows in a hospital recovering from two major operations; he had retired from politics five years ago. His friends came to his bedside, pleaded: "Come on, Charlie. . . . You are the most popular man in New Bedford, you have been elected Mayor 22 times;† why not a 23d...
This problem needs no further discussion because there is only one obvious answer. However, the solution of this problem must be complete by Registration Day, September 23d. Application for membership in the Business School Club may be made at time of registration...
...Chapter First 1. And it came to pass in the ninth month, on the 23d Day of the Month, the Sons of Harvard murmured and said...