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...Foretold by legend and announced by mystics, there comes periodically upon Japan the dread Hinuma or "year of the Sign of the Horse...
...distinction of some of the committee for last week's celebration foretold the distinction that will attach to the ceremony in December. There were Senator Carter Glass of Virginia (toastmaster), Vice President Charles G. Dawes, Chief Justice William H. Taft, Chinese Minister Dr. Alfred Sze, Representative Theodore E. Burton and Dr. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, head of the National Geographic Society. Other U. S. notables whose undergraduate studies or mature achievements have won them membership in P. B. K.: John W. Davis, Charles E. Hughes, Theodore Roosevelt, Michael Pupin, Owen D. Young, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis D. Brandeis, Edward Terry...
...Bells. In this season of recurrent revivals, almost any student of the older theatre could have foretold that this veteran success of Henry Irving's would be dragged out and done again. This same student might also have foretold the futility of the attempt. The Bells is an old melodrama of Alsace, in which the Burgomaster had murdered a wandering seed merchant 15 years before. Any doubt in this matter is completely cleared up when the Burgomaster stops the second act for about five minutes to reconstruct the crime in soliloquy. Rollo Lloyd played the part and did well...
Strange prodigies foretold that he was destined to no ordinary way of life. The gargoyles on Memorial Hall were heard to laugh and shriek at midnight, and the ghost of Punch was seen in broad daylight astride an ibis in Mt. Auburn Street. And sure enough, as years went by, the fact was oft remarked that young Lampoon was not a common child. For hours he'd ponder over some inanity, and then would roar with laughter at his own conceit. And this, together with his marked plebeian tendencies and over-strong aversion to the Irish nation, got it whispered...
...Progressing House had been chosen in 1924. He would have been handicapped during one-quarter of his term by a hostile Congress, and died before the first session of the friendly one. Had Mr. Wheeler then continued his policies with the disastrous consequences which the old guard foretold, not until 1927 could the people have placed in office representatives who could put an end to their operation...