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...unwonted characters moved within President Roosevelt's orbit last week- a hard-bitten former Rum Row sea captain and a brash, lanky senior at the University of North Carolina...
...that time the dictatorial bug had bitten King Carol. The Iron Guard leadership was dangerous and must at least be imprisoned. The official version of the killing was that the 14 were shot down while trying to escape from their guards as they were being transferred to another prison. But none but the most unsophisticated doubted that the Government of the Dictator-King had ordered the killing. A few hours later the Government ordered the ruthless suppression of all terrorism...
...bowed curtly before a tornado of applause, then pounced upon the opening measures of Weber's Sonata op. 39. Concertgoers who had long marveled at Pianist Rosenthal's strength, speed and musical under-standing now marveled at his endurance. Many a great virtuoso of the keyboard has bitten the dust since 1888. But lion-jawed Moriz Rosenthal could still teach tricks to pianists half his age, still held his place among the world's top pianists...
Last week the ballads of the Molly Maguires, with 75-odd other hard-bitten songs of the anthracite regions, were published. Author of the collection,† George Korson, a former newspaper reporter of Pottsville, Pa., had been hunting and writing down mine songs for some 14 years. Bristling with disasters, explosions, strikes and brawls, Korson's book makes one of the dourest proletarian records ever to come out of the drabbest of U. S. industrial areas...
...notwithstanding Grandma's hard-bitten highmindedness, Bertha Damon remembers her with affection as well as amazement. One of her most touching memories recalls how Grandma Griswold, then 96, apologized just before she died. She apologized for two things: 1) for having refused to let Bertha have pets and 2) for having all her life lacked will power...