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...Capper's senior and colleague is Charles Curtis, the Republican leader, and although as the junior Senator from Kansas Mr. Capper occupies no such important post, his importance has swelled in the political firmament as the resentment of corn farmers in the West (TIME, Jan. 4, 11) has been more and more clearly disclosed at the Capital during the last few days...
...Secretary. Norma Shearer, now an accepted star in the Metro firmament, spends the first part of this picture looking homely and the last part her loveliest. In the homely part she is a stenographer; later she marries one of the firm. The first part is amusing and the second fairly dull, if indeed peering at the gorgeous countenance of Miss Shearer is ever dull...
Western Amateur. Last week at Detroit a bright-gleaming comet flashed across the golfing firmament, followed by a heavy shower of falling stars...
...revolutionists, youth now becomes sober and looks round. There has been notable achievement inevitably marred by excesses, yet despite the latter, the success of their efforts is indisputable. And as a result of the struggle, college men, and not a mere handful either, have established themselves in the literary firmament. Those who come after, those who have not as yet graduated from college, will find their way easier. They will not be swayed by the heat of conflict; nor will they have to contend with overwhelming opposition. If possessed with talent and energy, college men may now develop their literary...
...with coarse ideas and material ideals. The trouble with them is that they are, like too many of us, generalizing on a subject of which they have seen only a very small phase. They have not seen and appreciated the greater and brighter stars of our intellectual and artistic firmament. They have judged merely by an analysis of the masses. It is true that the war had a bad effect on a majority of our people but it is equally true that it had a truly refining influence on a minority of Americans and it is this minority which...