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...Branscomb of Anniston, Ala., regarding the possibility of the Democrats' nominating a wet for the Presidency: "My grandfather and my father were Democrats, and if I should vote the Republican ticket they might turn in their graves, but I would do it if the northern Democrats should betray the cause for which we have suffered...
...twirl. He was smiling and his luminous eyes gave no hint of the fact that he was the husband of a woman who had been tried for murder and he himself had been tried for treason and both had survived their tribulations. Nor did those fascinating eyes of his betray that he had come to London desperately intent on speaking the English language with which he was none too familiar, and on negotiating a delicate diplomatic matter of the first importance. Bowing behind this strange figure appeared the diplomatic corpus of M. de Fleurian, the French Ambassador...
...patches were in style one had only to look at an English lady's face to determine her politics. Today in France a glance at a man's collar will tell you whether he is an old school royalist, and if his socks are of the wrong shade they betray a dangerous radical. Ever meticulous in matters of dress Paris was astounded when M. Painleve, President of this enchanter of Deputies, appeared at his own reception wearing a turned down collar and a disarranged tie. And when the Under Secretary of State for Aviation opened his coat and exhibited...
About a year later, Okladsky was the highest paid ordinary official of the notorious Okrana or Tsarist secret police. He was created a "personal noble" (noble for life), later an hereditary nobleman.* In Moscow, before his Bolshevik judges, he said that he had been forced to betray his Nihilist comrades under the inhuman torture to which he was subjected while awaiting execution and, at the price of his freedom, had consented to join the Okrana and work for the Tsar...
...observe, in the succeeding editorial, that Mrs. Grundy, in the person of the Library authorities, persists in seeing it through. In the department of book reviews, three new books are reviewed at length, and five more are graced with brief notes, always capable and frequently keen. The captions, however, betray a slightly ruddy tint: "Barrett Wendell and His Letters" is headed "Pink Spats and Humanism"; "Sard Harker, Nautical Soul-Mates"; and Cabell's new book, for some reason that for the moment escapes the writer's mind. "Beyond Garters...