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...bugbear of the U. S. Senate irreconcilables, the red herring with which they tripped President Wilson, was again offered for sacrifice on the horns of the altar by the Canadian representative at the League Council Assembly as a move to bring America into the League. A majority of member nations, led by France, preferred to keep Article...
...always cared more for the steeplechase than the altar, has always been more willing to risk the royal neck in a race than the royal finger in a ring. He can scarce raise an eyebrow but the whole world notes the new slant, a dozen ladies are waiting for the word;--he smiles with appreciation and goes on with his game. He merely enters another Derby, carries a bobbing crown over hedges and dumps it in a creek...
...Chapel Car: Under the charge of the Rev. Eugene J. McGuinness, a Pullman car has been fitted up with an altar, organ, and seats for 75 people. The car will start this month from Washington, D. C., and hold services in isolated portions of the country...
Evidently these two young and spirited gentlemen were devoted to a form of idol worship, but the tribute which they laid at the altar of love is nothing compared to the tributes which present followers of the sport lay before all manner of altars, including that of the Knock-out Punch, Good Looks, the Dome-run Swat, and of multifarious others. For years Valentine's idle heroine worship has been the only religion of a young "louyere and a lusty bachelor", but now the "irrepresible vitality of youth" does not let him rest content until he has gone far afield...
...against Turkey that the Greek armies suffered a complete collapse. But other Greek armies have collapsed, ever since the day when Lord Byron failed in his attempt to help restore to them the glory which was theirs. Were not these men victims sacrificed by the people at the altar of fanaticism? This was their feeling and the rest of the world agrees with them...