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...unlikely, Mrs. McCormick will be elected to Congress in November. She will undoubtedly make an active, vigorous member; for while the locations of her four residences-a ranch in Wyoming; a farm at little Byron, Ill..; a camp in Virginia; an ancient manor in Georgetown, well out of Washington-bespeak her inclination to "get away from it all," still she is far more the intense realist than the intellectual recluse. She sees no sex in statesmanship. She says she knows some women who are qualified right now for Cabinet positions. Some day, she says, a woman will be President...
...popular in almost every time in which there can be said to be 'style". Movie palaces of lavishness not excelled in any period of history are a classic example of this tendency. The continued popularity of night clubs, revues in the grand manner, automobiles in garish colors, all bespeak a desire for the rich and gaudy rather than a gradual return to a stately simplicity, while the actions of American tourists in Europe have been such as to show them far ahead of the Europeans as exhibitionists American prosperity made this country go off at a tangent, but once there...
...endowment of any professorship bespeaks grace in the donor. Few bespeak also an interest equal to that recognized by Harvard men in the Theodore William Richards chair in Chemistry just established in his alma mater by Thomas W. Lamont, Harvard, '92, in memory of an elder brother, Hammond Lamont...
...Green's record in politics and his experience within the ranks of labor bespeak an active and aggressive leader whose opinions, especially, in view of the fact that his administration in just beginning, should be of especial value to those who are interested in the trend of modern unionism, and particularly its future in America...
...bespeak for the captain and new director of track athletics the earnest and undivided support of Harvard...