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...tomb of Queen Isabella and her consort, King Ferdinand, was robbed of the cross on the top part of the famous iron screen that surrounds their last resting place in the Royal Chapel of the Cathedral of Granada. The Government issued warrants for the arrests of the robbers, who sold the cross as old iron to several dealers...
...bottom. Become a member of your Town Committee, if you live in a town, or Ward Committee if you live in a city. Serve in town or city Government and then in the State Legislature, House or Senate. You will find the men you consort with are business and professional men. Government and the science of Government is the foundation of a country. No man is apt to be elected to Congress who is not a citizen of reputation and who has not made good in life. To appear before a constituency of 200,000 and win their approval...
...Magnificent beholds the dwelling of God as a vast, shining palace; the Egyptian slave beholds it as a sanctuary of a wordless mystery; Herlighy, from Eighth avenue, beholds it as a City Hall buzzing with bald-headed efficiency. The author has had difficulty in making this grand idea consort with the flippancy and slangy pathos of his main characters. In spite of some excellent writing and characterization devoted to that end, the emphasis of the story falls squarely on the Egyptian slave's speech: "The Lord is great and kind, but the way of the Lord is dark...
...more conventional plea, "In Defence of Verse Form," though less bizarre, shows in its frequent graceful lines more promise of actual power. Timotheus' lyre and Pope's lines on Atticus do consort incongruously enough with Hudibras and Keat's urn and the other members of this cento; yet, though the poet's head as well as heart be "poor-rhyming," he vallantly says what he thinks. New wine, if strong, should not be put in old bottles, but when weak, it may gain flavor from the less...
...With a consort of lusty youths to guide...