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...proposed Western excursion. In 1870 a torchlight procession smoked down Pennsylvania Avenue, besought President Grant to have built a permanent Western White House somewhere west of the Mississippi. At the last session of Congress, Representative Dickinson of Iowa resurrected the proposal. Official Washington, including the President, is said to frown on the Western White House idea as needlessly expensive...
...live some people must see life from all of its angles, just as others must refrain from seeing it from any angle. "Hatracket" will arise whenever Bostonians find their bucolic boundaries crossed by realism or by candor. And the same race which maintains the limits of Boston culture will frown upon those who jibe at the rouged tip of its saintly nasal organ even as they add more millions to those already heaped upon the altars or Bernar McFadden...
...years from now some of these young men, thanks either to their own efforts or to the fortune amassed for them by a considerate father, will be men of affairs and captains of industry. And they will read some morning of a strike. . . . How pleasant it will be ... to frown at the morning's news and murmur, 'Bolsheviki,' 'hoodlums,' 'vandals...
...this dream not comparable to the Vatican's ideal of the Kingdom of Christ? Down came the Cardinal's eyebrows into a deep frown, and ire flashed from the darkness. "How dare you make that comparison?" he thundered: "The idea of Christ as King is as old as the Christian world. Empires have passed and others will pass and be forgotten, but the Kingdom of Christ will live...
Beneath the frown of Dictator-Premier Benito Mussolini one Fascist after another arose to find only words of praise upon his tongue: "A great step forward . . . Fascist unity of Labor, Capital and the State ... a death blow to the Marxian theory of class struggle...