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Back went this news to the roving newspapermen. They bustled up and down the islands a few hours and flashed home, for Mr. Wilbur's contemplation, a truly horrible dilemma. They told him that, providentially, the half-filled tank was on higher ground than the empties. All Mr. Wilbur need...
If the end of Mem marks the decline of the tradition of gregarious leisureliness, it may not pass without creating a compensating store of new tradition. Such a structure, honored in the past and haloed in the present, cannot fail to found a legendary cycle. Ghosts may creak its boards...
Darrow has been frequently characterized in the press as "a great stage artist, a greater artist than lawyer." One M. L. Edgar, in the St. Louis Mirror, has described his personal appearance thus : "Of more than average height, a frame that ambles along carelessly, with toes kicked up in process...
With richly caparisoned pageantry, with fine democratic speechmaking, with orchestras, choirs, choruses, soloists, with lecturers, clergymen, suffragettes, scientists, with the President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc., and the President of the Rockefeller Foundation, the annual program of Chautauqua Institution was launched upon the sylvan shores...
This was an age of letter-writing among the ladies of the period. Most of them wrote about the trivialities of Court life and paid floods of compliments to the King and the "reigning mistress ;" few ventured upon criticisms. Those letters of de Scudéry, de Sévign...