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Scandal), made five-hour speeches in Parliament, bet foolishly on innumerable horses, was buried with high ritual in Westminster Abbey. He was a breath-taking swell; far sweller than the lacy-sleeved heroes of his dramas. Even Captain Jack Absolute of The Rivals pales by comparison with his dashing creator. Captain Jack, as everyone well-versed in English drama knows, conducts his courtship of Miss Lydia Languish under an assumed name, because she is so rich herself that she fancies a penurious lover. Lydia is in care of the imposing, loquacious Mrs. Malaprop, who moves with the majesty...
Grand Admiral Alfred Paul Friedrich von Tirpitz, creator of the Imperial German Navy, went to a sanitarium in the pine forest back of Munich five weeks ago, tried to shake off an attack of bronchitis. Worn out with coughing, his 81-year-old heart gave way last week...
Five hundred dollars awaits the creator of the winning design; there is a second prize of $250 for the runner up. Conditions...
...solicitor at St. John's to tell him what there is in botany to interest a man, I explained certain of the inter-relations of botany and geology, only to receive the astounding reply: "Why, Sir, do you not realize that you are prying into the secrets of the Creator?" Again, when visiting my home-village in Maine, I was seriously upbraided by a former schoolmate for my apparent disloyalty to the United States, which seemed evident to him because I was working on scientific problems connected with foreign countries...
...believe I am the creator of the sobriquet 'Tiger' with a capital 'T' as applied to M. Clémenceau." said Editor Emile Buré of the Paris daily L'Avenor last week. "I am proud of the achievement! It will perhaps furnish the only chisel ever likely to cut my name in the granite of History...