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Occasional perusal of the editorial columns of the Boston Transcript should be sufficient to familiarize any reader with such characteristics of that paper as political prejudice or smug contempt for new and radical ideas. No one is surprised to see Transcript editors acclaim as inspired every word which issues from a Republican month, dismiss with a shrug the work of advanced political thinkers, or threaten the country with imminent ruin from communist machinations. But complete as the conservative and reactionary attitude of the Transcript may usually be, it is still able on occasion to surprise the most constant...
There was no fatted calf, no purple robe, no new ring for his finger when Leopold Stokowski stepped up on the dais last week for the season's first Philadelphia Orchestra concert at the Academy of Music. But there was the same blond halo and the wildest acclaim Philadelphians permit themselves. Their prodigal was home and great was the rejoicing. He had had them worried.. All manner of mystic rumors had drifted in from his Far East trip. He would return. He would not return. He had been hypnotized by Indian and Javanese music. At best he could...
...scholarly writer of some 25 volumes on sociology, finance, colonization, ethnology, migration, marriage, and political and social science. Though President Hainisch's hobby is milk cows, he is even now industriously and perhaps dutifully at work upon a new tome, to be entitled The Theory of Competition. Austrians acclaim him the smart son of a smart mutter...
...Acclaim. The Commons, warming to a ceremony which would last for many hours, elected by acclaim as Speaker onetime Queen's Page Fitzroy, now a grizzled War veteran of 58, wounded at Ypres and Klein Zillebecke. He, with a coy modesty demanded by ritual, first demurred at the too-great honor, and then submitted himself to what is known as the Superior Judgment of the House...
...Kansas City, in a hotel, with the vortex only a few blocks away, a solid, grey, squire-like man from Illinois also waited for the result. He had been a State Governor and knew the surge of popular acclaim. "No man ever ran away from the presidency," he had said. He was hoping the farmers from his section of the land would insist upon the nomination coming to him. He thought he could win the trust of all the other kinds of men whose influence counted. Men had called him another Cincinnatus. He let his friends play up the farm...