Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. After contemplating Walt Whitman, styled by him The Magnificent Idler, Author Rogers steps up to look at another post-Civil War celebrity, styled "perfect man," " drunken atheist, "equal of Demosthenes. The biographer's literary luggage is this time a collapsible suitcase full of modern stylistic, analytical, rhetorical tricks which make Ingersoll's oldtime silver -tongued bombast seem, by contrast, like the noises of a nickleplated nickleodeon. Undeniably, Colonel Bob was once important. He was, by force of personality, a sun about which minor political planets moved, forming an Ingersollar system. Now, no longer important, his outmoded heresies...
...announced that they would wait. And so the "siege" that ended two days ago began. After M. Daudet had received French pastry, champagne, and other life maintaining victuals in great number from his friends, and after daily during the "siege" announcing that to surrender would mean the end of civil liberty, honour, and whatnot, M. Daudet quite naturally surrendered...
...Widener Memorial Room a group of autographs which were sold during the Civil War by the Sanitary Commission, the Red Cross of that time, is on exhibit...
There remained civil suit to recover from Mr. Small and the Curtis estate, an amount placed by the state at $1,025,000. Because Governor Small disputed many items in the state bill, a Master in Chancery was appointed to report on the exact sum owed. Last week the approaching Chancery decision brought the six-year-old case once more into black, streaming headlines...
...school in New Orleans. His seven stripes indicate 35 years, going on 40, with the New York Central. His residences are on St. Nicholas Ave., N. Y. C., and Calumet Ave., Chicago. His chief club, The Turf Club (Chicago). His sons, Devere Joseph and George Joseph Jr., are in civil service and sportdom, respectively. George Joseph Jr. achieved some fame as a pugilist (nom de combat, "Jose Alvarez, the Mexican Kid") and fought "Kid" MacPartland to a bloody draw in his last ring appearance, in Illinois. Mr. Warner Jr. now bets on race horses...