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George V of England, in naval uniform, stands hand on hip beside a pensive Wales in khaki. David Lloyd George is carrying a cane, fingering his monocle. Lord Kitchener listens attentively to something Lord French is explaining. A white-turbaned Maharajah smiles behind a bag-piping Scot...
Last week Mr. Roosevelt, who still walked with the aid of a cane, discussed a six months' tour of the South, undertaken, he said, in the interests of "party unity." But Mr. Roosevelt, who was the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1920, is generally regarded as the unofficial manager of Governor Smith's unofficial campaign for the presidential nomination...
...Poet. Edwin Arlington Robinson ? lean, stooping figure, dark mustache, dreamer's forehead, thinker's mouth, soft hat, cane, shuns women and public speaking ? came to fame in 1905 when Theodore Roosevelt, then President, reviewed The Children of the Night, which Mr. Robinson had written in a barn at Gardiner, Me. Mr. Roosevelt secured him a position in the New York Customs House. He is now employed by Ledoux & Co. (ores) in John Street, Manhattan. On his 50th birthday (1919) a symposium of authors acclaimed him in the New York Times as greatest living U. S. poet. Twice since...
...there appeared at the Bourse, just at the moment when business activity was at its highest, a young man dressed in an extraordinary costume consisting of buckled shoes, long silk stockings, satin knee-breeeches, an ordinary vest and sack coat, a felt hat, and a cane. For a few moments business stopped and the crowd stared at his costume and admired his courage and then in contradistinction to the enthusiast who became so enamored of classical culture that he wandered about the streets of New York in the costume of the ancient Greeks until the police laid hands...
Others, at night, lit torches from their fires, set ablaze piles of sugar cane over wide-stretching fields. All about the district, thousands of tons of cut cane lay spoiling. The Governor General pondered, considered the arrest of strike-leaders, sought for new ways to end the strike...