Word: congratulationes
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Starting from scratch 31 years ago, Ibn Saud has successfully bluffed the British, reduced hostile cities by siege after bloody siege (in 1924-25 he besieged Medina, where Mohammed lies buried, for 15 months) and hacked out a kingdom of 4,000,000 souls in the middle of Arabia (900...
Beyond the black outline of the Treasury, the White House gleamed in the night. Speaker Garner lighted a fresh cigar. It was too dark to see the expression in his eyes. Soon he went downstairs to bed. At 11 p. m. when Governor Roosevelt was nominated, the Speaker got up...
This was only one of the eulogies tendered last week at a banquet in Manhattan. Few U. S. college students or alumni have the occasion, or the inclination, to give a long yell for the grandson of one of the college's first patrons. But Colgate University yelled lustily...
For the main dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Western Union Telegraph Co. installed complete cable and telegraph stations and three translux machines to flash messages of congratulation as they poured in from rulers, statesmen, educators and dignitaries in the four corners of the world. Ready for the diners' inspection were...
In most social orders, to be conventional is to be dull, to be unconventional is to be damned. Out of the fears of the dull and the struggles of the damned springs Fashion, full-armed, and Gossip, first instruments of human culture and advancement. That these necessities have found a...