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Major U.S. Grant, grandson of the General of the same name, son of Major General Frederick Dent Grant and son-in-law of Elihu Root, is to come into the foreground shortly. On Dec. 31 he succeeds Lieutenant Colonel Clarence O. Sherrill, who is resigning from his post as Director of Public Buildings and Parks of the District of Columbia to become City Manager of Cincinnati. Major Grant, formerly Colonel Sherrill's assistant, becomes his successor...
Wild Horse Mesa. One more rearing range of Western hills has been photographed for melodrama's sake. In the foreground is Jack Holt with Billie Dove, Noah Beery and several thousand wild horses. How Holt saved the horses' lives, abetted the extermination of Mr. Beery and won the lady consume eight reels. Sin and sunshine are contained about in the usual proportions for normal Western entertainment...
...present, however, more in the foreground than either of these gentlemen is James Barry Munnik Hertzog who, in June of last year, succeeded General Smuts as Prime Minister of the Dominion. Hertzog fought without distinction as a Boer General against the British in the South African War (1899-1902), but in negotiating the Peace of Vereeniging, he rose to equal prominence with Generals Botha and Smuts, his brother officers. For a decade, he worked with these...
...swelling in Europe like a wen-such a period inevitably lent a lustre to extravagance and was a nursery of fantastic spirits. It is with this period that Author Minnigerode is primarily concerned. His essays are like the intricate oil-paintings of the time: a little figure in the foreground, and behind, in chiaroscuro, ships, crowds, cannon, marching men. In the interests of his characters, he has pried with a candle into many dusty cupboards. He is witty without being glib, and schooled in that subtlest accomplishment of scholarship-the ability to conceal his labor...
Cambridge and Boston simultaneously. Street in front of Police Headquarters. To the right a Citizen is being murdered. To the left a Citizen is being robbed. In the background a Citizen is being kidnapped. In the foreground Chief O'Wottadamshame and Sergeant O'Wottashame are seated on the curbstone reading the Gazette. Cries of "Help! Police!" resound on all sides...