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...Lane," "The Dauber in Great Newport Street," or "The Lump in Leicester Square," although the latter made residence, at one time or another, in all these thoroughfares. Romney never retaliated at all, for, to the end of his life, Reynolds frightened him. In the first place, Romney had been born behind the vulgar door of trade. His father was a cabinetmaker. Reynolds was of the gentry, a clergyman's son. And Reynolds would take for mistress nothing less than a duchess with ten quarterings, while Romney had only Emma-gentle Emma Hart, who later became Lady Hamilton, whom...
...week great grandfather Albert Baird Cummins, Senator from Iowa, for nearly two decades one of the greatest influences in the governance of the U. S. was stricken with heart disease, died suddenly. Theodore Roberts, merely a grandfather, went on living, acting. On Feb. 15, 1850, a man-child was born in Carmichaels, Pa. Waynesburg College taught him law, Iowa made him an insurgent Republican and thrice elected him governor. In 1908 when the "Iowa idea" for flexible tariff legislation was rampant, Albert B. Cummins strode into the U. S. Senate along with many another radical. This Senator from Iowa...
...liquor at dances, lovers' lanes, roadhouses, increasing illegitimacy. And I have a daughter 16 years old." Illinoisans were amused, amazed, intrigued. "Boss" Brennan had jumped from the back room to the stump. What was he doing running for public office? All his life he had avoided it. Born in Cayuga County,* New York, in 1865, he earned his first dollar in a coal mine in Braidwood, 111. Miners probably decided that George Brennan would make a success of life when he lost a leg. A switchman was absent on a post-payday drunk. George, substituting, tried to uncouple...
...shall be loosed in Heaven."* (MATTHEW XVI: 18, 19.) Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, successor to the authority of Peter, brooded last week at 'the Vatican upon what forces he should loose against Plutarco Elias Calles, President of Mexico, arch foe and suppressor of non-Mexican-born clericals of every creed (TIME, August 2, et ante). His Holiness may have reflected that the Roman Catholic Church has withstood down the ages onslaughts from the civil power of almost every predominantly Catholic state. When Vittorio Emanuele II contracted the temporal sway of the Pope within the Holy...
...take it away. . . ." She plunged into the pool. The crowd cheered. Later in the day the women started a distance race. Mme. Desprez won it, swam for more than an hour, showed no sign of fatigue. Asked for a speech, she told the wondering throng that she had been born in 1839, that her father had been a teacher of swimming, that she herself had taught for many years in the Samaritan Baths in Paris...