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...could overlook the King Albert memorial on a distinct promise that it would never occur again, but deliberately to repeat the crime in the Queen Victoria work and Nurse Edith Cavell monument makes one shudder...
...placid airings, last year whipped up its horses with a $10,000 prize for "the most interesting novel of any kind, sort or description," submitted by any writer, "whether born in London or Indianapolis." Readers looked for some tranquil, mildly effeminate tale, perhaps modeled on those of Edith Wharton. They were surprised on scanning the first installment of Jalna to discover a robust and brawny fiction, crowded with characters energetically alive, scampering into unexpected breaches of decorum. More than that, this book is one of the few important literary works which has come out of Canada in many a year...
...typical German aristocrat, medium height, portly but not adipose, with an attractive genial face and sharp eyes. Of all his traits, perhaps his devotion to his family was the most marked. He was to be seen everywhere not only with his wife, but with his daughter, Edith, to whom he was warmly attached. In his work he was unusually tactful, firm and independent. His genius for diplomacy, his skill and farsightedness won him the respect of statesmen far beyond the frontiers of Germany. Simple and unaffected in speech, he exuded an earnestness and sincerity that marked him as capable...
...hole on the afternoon 18, the gallery shook their heads sympathetically for Mrs. Horn. But Mrs. Horn refused to consider her plight seriously, and, cigarets and all, she took the women's national championship back with her to Kansas City, the first time it has been west since Edith Cummings...
...There is no outstanding figure in women's golf comparable to Helen Wills in tennis. Alexa Stirling dominated ten years ago, winning in 1916, 1919, 1920 (no tournament 1917 and 1918). In 1921, Marion Hollins won the championship ; 1922, Glenna Collett; 1923, Edith Cummings; 1924, Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Kurd ; 1925, Glenna Collett; 1926, Mrs. G. Henry Stetson...