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...death, but in the case of George Romney it was singularly accurate. The ages have adopted him, his theatricality, his sentimentality, his clever color, his stilted drawing. Alone, perhaps, of all the draughtsmen of his period, he paid no attention to posterity. Therefore posterity took him to her bosom. He painted to please his patrons, to make a living. He still pleases the patrons of Sir Joseph Duveen, and the sale of one of his portraits makes the living of a dozen dealers. In his lifetime he had one enemy -Reynolds. He had no rivals. Sir Joshua and Gainsborough were...
...birds of heaven, none is more moral than the stork. Monogamy is his rule and practice. Year in and year out he cleaves to the original wife of his pouted bosom, rearing family after family with her in their first and only love-nest on some Dutchman's rooftree or in the cornice of a South European villa. So faithful and contented is the admirable stork, indeed, that he was long ago judged fit to represent the mysterious agency that brings the patter of tiny feet to human abodes. Pet storks are commonly named "Cato," after the eminent Stoic...
...Senator pressed his quest farther back in history. "Oh, yes," Mrs. George replied, the antique cameo pin on her bosom rising upon a swell of honest pride, the W. C. T. U. had gone to the Governor's assistance long ago; in 1923, when the Legislature refused to vote him $250,000 to enforce Prohibition. She had gone to the Governor personally and told him that she and her colleagues would get that money for him. They had called their fund the "Governor's Enforcement Fund" and this was how it had been spent...
Scorpions crawled on the bosom of Lake Cayuga one afternoon last week - the red-and-white-footed scorpion of Cornell and the blue-and-gold of California. For nearly three miles they crawled evenly, staccato voices in their tails urging their legs to greater labor. Then open water began to show. There was a scorpion's length of it between the two when Cornell-her eight gigantic hearties bursting from a last effort which her slightly lighter California guests could not match-shot across the line, winner of a crew race that promised brave things for Cornell later...
...roaring Progressive Republican. He still votes with them, but he seems to be an extinct volcano. The old gentleman there, with a kindly face-no, not that one; he is Frederick Gillett, who used to be Speaker of the House and has now retired to the dignified bosom of the Senate as a reward for his long and faithful labor in the Republican cause. The other one farther back is Senator Cummins, who used to be a Progressive Republican, but now is one of the Nestors of the Senate, chairman of the Judiciary Committee; and one of the new Progressives...