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...Testament he says: "One might hesitate to liken it to any modern work of the first credibility, such as Boswell's Johnson or Eckermann's Gespräche mit Goethe, but it is certainly quite as sound as Parson Weems' Life of Washington or Uncle Tom's Cabin." His concluding remarks are a typical piece of Menckenian irony: he describes a hanging he once reported, at which the Baptist prisoner loudly recited the 23d Psalm while the sheriff and the hangman were busied with the final preparations; the fall of the drop cut short the prisoner...
...Transcript, the United States Daily and sundry other newspapers last week when statements by the State Department were made public by the Appropriations Committee of the House. The State Department had agitated to have its allowance for newspaper subscriptions raised from $700 per annum to $1,200. Particularly did che bosoms of Publisher Adolph S. Ochs and Business Manager Louis Wiley swell, because, concerning their newspaper, to which they have tried so hard to give unique completeness, the State Department said: "The paper most in demand is the New York Times, which has the largest amount of foreign news...
...outdoor fiddler. When French engineers ventured to dig the Panama Canal, Mr. Foy was shuffle-dancing and tumbling before miners in the mushroom towns of the Wild West. When Theodore Roosevelt called for Rough Riders, Eddie Foy was in bright lights, a symbol of spry clowning. By the time che Kaiser had started for Paris, "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys" had be come a vaudeville institution. A few years after the Peace Con ference, the whole family retired, the Little Foys because they were emerging from their first childhood, Eddie because he was entering his second. By that...
...wind . . . Jenny sat beside me biting her pen and looking cross and unhappy. ... The bell rang. 'Oh teacher . . i.!' 'Still haven't finished Clare? Afraid you can't have any more time today.' I experienced all the pangs of thwarted ambition, denial in che midst of white hot creation, death in the midst of life, and could have wept." The many assurances of Author Cameron's eagerness to express herself arouse the suspicion that she would have done better to curb her eagerness until she was eager to express more than her eagerness...
...Conferred at breakfast with Chairman Francis E. Warren ot che Senate Appropriations Committee, Chairman Martin B. Madden of the House Appropriations Committee, and a group of Senators and Representatives; discussed the Mississippi flood situation. Senators present included William E. Borah of Idaho and Edwin S. Broussard of Louisiana...