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...Montana, generally considered by the world as musically a lummox, an adventurous organization has played clearly enough for one or two of its flute notes to echo across the badlands, the prairies, and on into the grand chateaux of Art in civilized regions to the Eastward...
...Here I am, my face turned eastward and you [Americans] want to know what I think of you. . . . Most of you are hampered with no traditions, have inherited neither houses nor names. No ancestry makes you pause to wonder if it is dignified for you to do this or that, to be with this man or that. . . . You speak of freedom and democracy, and yet . . . there seems to me no privacy in your American lives. Everything everybody does is pried into. ... It is strange that you who are so busy living have time for this extraordinary interest in others...
...Peter, Emperor of Muscovy, told the gentlemen of his court to shave off their beards. The commandment had a significance beyond the capillary, for the beards of the Russian nobles were copied from the men who lived to the Eastward; the monarch's bare chin was the outward and visible sign of his detestation of the Orient. A wise man once called Asia the subconscious mind of Europe, and since the beard is to the face what the East is to Western civilization many scholars have thought that Peter was quite right to shave. He did not want...
...newspaper field"; not only was he "wiser for a bad experiment"-chiefly as touched the selection of lieutenants-and determined to conduct his affairs more astutely in the future; but he was. likewise determined, after having built up his California ventures into a new fortune, to turn triumphantly eastward and demonstrate to himself, his family and the world that he is what many already think he is, a potent journalist. He pictured himself buying or starting up a chain of eastern papers, avoiding Philadelphia and Manhattan, and becoming to the Atlantic seaboard what the late Edward Wyllis Scripps...
...these two cities. At Bay Roberts, 150 Newfoundlanders bundled on their oilskins and went down the beach through a driving rain to drag in the monstrous sea-serpent of twisted copper, brass, guttapercha and "permalloy" brought in to them by the cable-layer Colonia. The Colonia then plowed off eastward to splice a deep-sea section with the other shore end at Penzance. In August she will lay a final section from Bay Roberts to Manhattan...