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Averages are usually uninteresting and impersonal, and of late they have been losing popularity and influence. The "average man" has found himself the fortunate possessor of inhibitions and high-blood pressure. The "man in the street" has become a Ford owner. The "dangerous criminal" has become a Chicagoan or a victim of temporary insanity. In every class the generality has given way to the particular in point of interest except in the case of the "college student...
...administrator, sat down. He was guest of honor. Vice President Dawes, president of the Central Trust Co., sat down. He was host. Samuel Insull, James A. Patten, Alexander Hamilton Revell, Julius Rosenwald, Melvin Alvah Traylor, Silas Hardy Strawn, David Robertson Forgan, Walter Ansel Strong and many another potent, eminent, Chicagoan sat down. And Mayor William Hale Thompson sat down too. He was the guest who caused the most comment-social comment outside of Chicago, because few non-Chicagoans realize that Chicago's "better element" have not only tolerance but affection for Mayor Thompson; political comment everywhere because Mayor Thompson...
Cleveland had the 1924 G. O. P. convention. Chicago had five in a row before that. Chicago has had nine Republican conventions since the G. O. Party nominated its second candidate (Abraham Lincoln) there in 1860. The National Republican executive secretary (Lawyer Roy Owen West) is a Chicagoan, and, despite all the talk, Illinois is not likely to be embarrassed by a favorite son. The dissonant quatrian...
...Chicagoan, ignorant, hurried up to another, brandishing his paper. He pointed at the item with an angry finger...
...Wouldn't it be nice," said Mrs. Chicagoan to her husband, "if, after a hard half-day at the office, you could take me to a Manhattan night club...