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...Jenkins appeared in flame-colored velvet, with yellow ringlets piled high on her head. For a starter she picked Brahms' Die Mainacht, subtitled on her gilt program as "O singer, if thou canst not dream, leave this song unsung." Mrs. Jenkins could dream if she could not sing. With her hands clasped to her heart she passed on to Vergebliches Standchen, which she had labeled "The Serenade in Vain...
...bunched all Tammany's local candidates. Judged by the applause of 21,000 Democrats, Al Smith was the evening's favorite. For an old-fashioned flaying of the G. 0. P. he took as his text: ''Give an account of the stewardship, for now thou canst be steward no longer." The Smith speech was liberally sprinkled with: "Listen to this-it's a hot tamale! . . . Let's look at the record. . . . Then what happened? . . . Now get this!" Governor Roosevelt concluded his last major address: "The millions of unchronicled heroes who, by self-denial...
...Emden," thou never, never canst...
...trouble with our education in the past has been its negative character. It has aimed at the repression of faults rather than the creation of virtues. It has summed up all the virtues in 'Thou shalt not,' instead of opening vast opportunity in the cry, 'Thou mayest?thou canst...
...thou canst hear us, bleast...