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...America is not ruled by the Washington government", Mr. Russell said. "It is Oil and Morgans that rule you. America is on the crest of a worship of machines and industrial efficiency. An empire of American finance over the whole world, liberal and cruel to the highest degree, is the nightmare prospect before the world. The only hope, so far as I can see, lies in a great development of liberal feeling and thought in America. The power of financial magnates rests on public opinion and it is such movements as this that you are starting here, that will save...
Nagako had many garments made in Kioto: a kimono of scarlet and purple silk carrying the embroidered chrysanthemum crest; a skirt of intricate design; an outer dress of purple silk with designs of pine trees and tortoises, symbols of long life. She carried a fan of gilded wood on which were painted varicolored flowers. (Her trousseau, invaluable, contained a kimono of twelve thicknesses...
...cross worn over a long-hooded gown of brown, blue, green or gray, according to the rank of the person; the knights wore mantles of red with gold edgings and white crosses on the left shoulder. Beautifully embroidered banners and magnificent crosses accompanied the procession in which the crest of self-sacrifice, the word of service, the bible of truth, the spurs of chivalry, etc., were borne on cushions by officers attended by esquires...
Whatever the sport "experts" may say the fact remains that the Harvard team, which "found itself about the middle of the second half of the Princeton game", is at the crest of its development. It has tasted both defeat and victory, and it likes victory better. It has been hailed as a possible mystery team, an eleven that may uncover deep laid schemes and unexpected manoeuvres-all this, perhaps, because the reporters must fill from four to eight columns no matter how little they know. But to the undergraduate and to the graduate who has watched the team develop there...
...This rhyme has frequently appeared of late in the public prints. And it has sometimes been supplemented by the information that the motto appearing on the Curzon arms is 'Let Curzon holde what Curzon helde', and the statement that our crest is described in heraldry as 'a popinjay rising, wings displayed...