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...ablest members of the House of Commons said only this year of the including of women in Parliament: 'What we have lost in dignity we may have gained in efficiency.' For ages, this House has been regarded as the ideal of all Parliaments. Are the noble Lords to sacrifice the dignity of this House on the chance of gaining a little efficiency...
...comrades who fell in battle. Let us continue to be true to our calling and let us place manly Truth and Honor above everything." But word had yet to come from the Saxon Field Marshal von Mackensen, reputed the first cavalry leader in the world, thought by many the ablest soldier Germany had in the War. What would the hero of a dozen Rus sian victories say? The white-haired soldier, now 74 years of age, gave his message: " We old soldiers are bearers of the spirit of 1914. You comrades must see that it continues to live...
...Briarcliff, N. Y. Leo ticked off a 285 for the title, Gene 287 for second. Other Americans in the annual border raid: W. Macfarlane, Tuckahoe, N. Y., 288; J. Farrell, Mamaroneck, N. Y., 291; W. E. Melhorn, St. Louis, 293; Clarence P. Hackney, Atlantic City, (1923 winner), 295. Ablest Canadian: A. Kay Lambton, of Toronto, seventh with...
...institution has lost some of its ablest and most promising instructors, and the academic reputation of the university has steadily declined since the present administration assumed control...
Long ago, in the fierce and uncouth days of 1920, there was a pen more scorching than other pens, and it was wielded by one of the ablest partisans of those contentious days. Whether it was because of the scorching pen or the ability of the partisan, or whether there were other causes at work, is no longer known nor was it then, but it befell that victory came to the side of the partisan with the scorching pen. On victory followed strange mutations. The partisan became a diplomat, a courtier. The mind that had formulated the deadliest slings...