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...first Doherty counterattack was a heavy barrage of telegrams. Whipped to fury by having his stock suspended he turned from the central issue of gas rates to assail the Kansas City Star, which he pictured as a wicked newspaper dictating to a puppet Governor, hurting the welfare of 1,000,000 Cities Service securities-owners by its action. Strength was added to his punches by the fact that in Kansas alone are several thousand Cities Service investors. Big shells in the first telegraphic attack included...
...foreign touch of carefully planned artistry o both a musical and a scenic nature which cannot fail to please the jaded palate of one who has seen too many of the American efforts. In directing their production, there has been no attempt made to have actresses with poor voices assail the higher ranges of the diatonic scale, as all the singing is done with a thought for beauty to tone and cadence. Abounding in music, which although not great, is yet of a high character, the directors have handled their sound effects with complete success. For one interested...
...while the newsboys hawk the story of his downfall, his wife comes to him, offering her humble adoration to meet the new humility which she expects him to have found. But the man's egoism is pounding within him-he casts her aside as he prepares again to assail his rivals, a savage, solitary, tragic figure with nothing left but his will-to-power...
...Wells. On the second day of the Catholic Congress, up reared the portentous bulk of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. England's three greatest publicists are the Messrs. Shaw, Chesterton and Herbert George Wells. Instead of replying to the Shavian sex sarcasm of the day before, Mr. Chesterton elected to assail Mr. Wells, evolutionist. He began by talking about atheists, of whom, he said, the world has very few. "An atheist," he boomed, "is much more difficult to emancipate than any one else because he is, above all people, the narrowest and most completely captive." But Mr. Wells is not even...
Wilhelm II, according to your story, blushed furiously and left the room, only to return later and assail Mackensen for the latter's failure to appear in uniform. Thereupon the Field Marshal is alleged to have repeated his former statement in effect...