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...Beauty, must hou always dwell afar...
...which related how John Carter, newspaperman, had addressed an open letter to President Coolidge. TIME holds that it is inappropriate for newsgatherers, far less assistant literary editors, to address open letters to the President of the U. S. Fully acquainted with Journalist Carter's record, TIME did not dwell upon those portions of it from which he might be expected to have learned who may appropriately address open letters to the President of the U. S. Would Managing Editor Bakeless, himself the author of two volumes on international politics (Economic Causes of Modern War, The Origin of the Next...
...came to inaugurate what may well prove the most important excavation of the present age. Steaming along the bay of Naples to Resina, the Savoia, cast anchor, and His Majesty disembarked at this modern hive of macaroni workers who dwell unconcerned above the buried ruins of Herculaneum, perhaps to be described as "the Newport of Imperial Rome." The city was obliterated by the same eruption of Vesuvius which engulfed Pompeii (1,848 years ago). Thirty feet of rock-hard lava cover the palaces of Herculaneum; but with the coming of His Majesty last week, rock drills began to purr...
There are, it is true, some fraternities which form a chain of brotherhood linking certain men in Harvard with certain other men in distant institutions. And there are clubs of various sorts. To dwell on the small part played by most clubs, meaning clubs so titled and also fraternities, as factors in gradations in the Harvard social scale is aphoristic. Every one, including both club men and non-club men, realizes that one is not a pariah because he does or does not belong to a club, or because he belongs to a club the rank of which might somehow...
...Court: "Have you any physical defects?" Sari Fedak (relaxing in her chair, replying in a sultry tone): "Certainly not-unless in my brain." Ah, reflected the auditors, more than one brain had been turned by Sari Fedak. Does not Count Emerich Dagenfeldt, now an old man, dwell locked in a wing of his castle, preparing incessantly gifts and toys for the two non-existent children whom he believes are his by Sari Fedak? Such things happen in Hungary, where certain ancient family strains have achieved notable degeneration. Perhaps it was by mere chance that Count Emerich Dagenfeldt went mad soon...