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...pledged $100,000; the Rock Island Lines, $100,000; J. P. Morgan and Co., $500,000; the National City Bank (Manhattan), $500,000; Kuhn, Loeb & Co., $250,000; Henry Ford, U. S. Steel Corp., General Motors, Allied Chemical and Dye, Kennecott Copper, Anaconda Copper, American Radiator, U. S. Rub-ber-all subscribed money, money, more than needed...
...that is now, and that has been for nearly half a century, as dead as Nineveh; and an extraordinarily brilliant depiction of the characters of a group of persons that makes it about as interesting a book as has been offered to the American reading public for a num-ber of years. The last quality is what calls for superlatives. Every character in the book is exhibited to you brilliantly. But Thomas and Christian and Antonie?and a few others?are not merely exhibited to you. Instead, practically the lifetime of each is portrayed flawlessly. You are allowed...
...tells me that his family moved to Brattleboro shortly after, where his playwright father worked in the house later occupied by Kipling. He studied at Harvard and in Europe. He traveled widely. He taught and lectured. He has planned pageants such as Caliban. He has written any num-ber of odes for this and that celebration. He has written as ambitious a narrative poem as Dogtown Common. Two of his books have become operas and both have been sung by major organizations. Now he has buried himself in the Kentucky mountains where, with Mrs. Mac-Kaye, he has studied...
...Rome and the rosary and other emblems of the Catholic order and faith" is wholly without foundation. Such statements touch my sense of humor. . . . As a Protestant myself, I deplore the circulation of these rumors, because they tend to arouse religious intolerance. . . . If there is any substantial num-ber of American citizens who believe this amusing but absurd story about the one-dollar greenback, what a field they would offer for Samson and his jawbone of an ass! In the Bible it is recorded (Judges XV, 15) that Samson "found a new jawbone of an ass and put forth...
During 1923 the deaths of 2,750 physicians were recorded in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Although the sources of its statistics make it seem likely that the figures are accurate, the Journal adds 2% for delayed reports and possible omissions, making the total reported num-ber 2,621. Forty physicians died under 30 years of age; 703 between 61 and 70; 513 between 71 and 80; 218 between 80 and 90; 33 between 91 and 100 and one lived to be 102. The greatest number of deaths for a given age occurred at 68 years, 79 being...