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Overnight most of the residents of Whittier recalled that they knew Col. Robins' identity all the time. John C. Dreier. Col. Robins' nephew, arrived from Manhattan, confirmed the identification. The 59-year-old Prohibitionist, wearing a two months' growth of whiskers, clung desperately to his assumed character. He was taken to a sanatorium at Asheville to be treated for amnesia. Mrs. Robins arrived from Florida, reported her interview with her husband thus...
...very happy. There before his eyes lay a great feast spread. Julian Coolidge in admiral's uniform was drinking champagne out of Field Marshal Apted's sliper, and liking it. Marriman was eating a freshman's hat with caviar and coffee. There was an effulgent unity which clung to his person like a baltimore enreole. The President mounted a stop ladder to read from an early annotated edition of the daily CRIMSON. The Vagabond swooned. It was more than angel tissue could bear...
...White House visitor last week was Mrs. Raymond Robins whose husband mysteriously disappeared early last month while on his way to keep a luncheon appointment with the President. Mrs. Robins clung to her belief that her husband had been kidnapped by 'leggers incensed by his Dry crusading...
...previous cunctatory policy toward the social reforms which it proposes. Too, MacDonald as leader of the Party is accountable, for while he has ever acted for what seemed to him the best interests of England, he has perceptibly become more and more conservative, even if in theory he has clung to the Fabian doctrines...
Three weeks after the struggle began Mayor I. O. Langum had to issue a municipal order that no one might disturb the combatants. Wiggling desperately, the snake tore the web again & again, but each torn strand clung to it and held it more tightly. Spinning with cold-blooded persistence, the spider lifted the snake higher & higher...