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...come five times to the U S., having traveled since he was 20, when he forsook wealth and family pride in Ceylon to become a priest. Now he is 77, and bound for London, there to establish a Buddhist temple, that love, unity, service and peace may come into the world...
Having learned to wield the saddle-maker's awl and, in his spare time, the pen, he forsook his trade, went to Bremen and became a journeyman. In Bremen, as is most of Germany's seaports, Socialism was finding hospitable entertainment in the hearts and minds of the common people. Young Ebert soon became identified with the Socialists and was to be seen most Sundays haranguing crowds on the merits of Marxian philosophy* but for all his energy he passed for a man of mediocre ability...
President Rykov, aged 53, is a former Vice Chairman of the Council of Commissars and head of the S. C. N. E. Born at Nijni Novgorod of peasant parents, he early forsook the land and managed to give himself a university education. Unlike most Bolsheviki, he has not been much abroad; like most Bolsheviki, he has served terms of imprisonment, has been an exile in Siberia. In 1899 he joined the Social Democrat Party, before it split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions, actively plotted against the Tsar...
...patriotism of a nation united by a great purpose became the party spirit of civil strife. Then the vision of America that had inspired the world became an infectious blindness to hide the vision. Then the courage that led became the fear that would not even follow. We forsook not only our comrades at arms but also the high purposes we had announced so proudly. We snatched peace and with it victory from the hands of our soldiers and our allies. We uprooted our dead from the earth of the very hills up which they had fought. We leveled their...
Hamlet. While the return of John Barrymore is not strictly news, two facts combine to make his reappearance noteworthy. He forsook the electric nebula, which last year served for the ghost, in favor of a flesh and blood actor (Reginald Pole) ; he gave an even greater interpretation than the one which last season served to break the world's record for consecutive performances (101). Barrymore is rapidly becoming recognized as America's greatest actor...