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...Herriot's melodrama will recall that the incident of the Danish sea captain is historic. The real Napoleon chose surrender and St. Helena, instead of a risky, ignominious flight to America. But the stage Napoleon cries: "In a wine-cask then! Give me five years, and I shall conquer the New World...
Encouraged by this signal triumph, Mrs. Palmer sought other worlds to conquer. London beckoned. Forthwith she purchased a house on Carlton Terrace; flung down the gauntlet to Mrs. John W. Mackay for King Edward's favor, and the social leadership it carried. The tourney was magnificent. For one Arabian night's entertainment in 1909, Mrs. Palmer spent $10,000; for one season, $200,000. Discreet King Edward refused to discriminate; shared his attendance equally...
...form are almost unique in U. S. public life. Few other fig- ures could have administered so impressively the prefatory rebukes to the Brown Derby which Spokesman Hughes uttered. He charged Nominee Smith with indulging in "cheap ridicule," "diatribe," "absurd tirades." "He [Nominee Smith] has stooped too low to conquer. . . . One's sense of fairness is affronted," said Mr. Hughes. "He misrepresents the position of Mr. Hoover and attempts to distort the meaning of Mr. Hoover's fine presentation of the true liberalism...
Philadelphia. After the icy rebukes of Charles Evans Hughes?that he had "stooped too low to conquer," etc., etc.? it was not surprising that Nominee Smith was boiling inwardly on his way to Philadelphia. His wrath became apparent during the delivery of his Philadelphia speech, in the bitterness of his tone and the fre quent unleashing of angry "ain'ts," which discreet shorthand reporters corrected into ''is nots" and "have nots" but which there was no concealing from the radio audience...
...Subscriber Rivera's sister conquer her neurosis or "inferiority complex" and boldly demand her fair share of food from the American Red Cross. Let no insolent clerk again upset her by crying, "Chow" Let Subscriber Rivera report to TIME that all is now well, or otherwise...