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...Stunners," too, had become a young lawyer-tall Warren Gamaliel Harding whose fine looks and big voice made as good an impression on men in billiard parlors as they did on girls at parties or buggy riding. While Daniel Richard Crissinger was building up a big practice, including the counselorship of the Marion Steam Shovel Co.,* and becoming president of the National City Bank & Trust Co. of Marion, Warren Harding was moving right on up in politics. He became a U. S. Senator and then, one summer, sat on his front porch and waited for his friends to make...
Revelry pokes with ruthless imagination into the secret misfortunes of a President of the U. S. whom theatre-goers found it easy to think of as Warren Gamaliel Harding. The audience sees President "Easy" Markham (Actor Berton Churchill) as a stately tool of politicians who run the nation from a poker table stuck away in a private nook known as "the crow's nest." Because of his unwholesome faith in these cronies, he allows the White House to degenerate into what one of the characters described as an automat ("Because when you want to take something out, you just...
...indolence at Vienna into mapping out two series of ambitious literary projects which he has since pursued with a vigor and skill that has brought him high rank, before his 50th year, among the authors of all Europe. One series is biography?spiritual portraits (of the type done by Gamaliel Bradford in the U. S.) of Balzac, Dickens, Dostoievsky, Nietzsche, Tolstoy (so far). The second series, to which the three stories in this volume belong, consists of novelettes written for the sake of studying intense types of men and women under the microscope of psychology, in which Dr. Zweig...
More the President would not say. It happened to be the fourth anniversary of the death of Warren Gamaliel Harding of Marion, Ohio, 29th U. S. President. And at 2 A. M. Aug. 3, four years ago, aged John C. Coolidge, slipperless, came down the stairs of his cottage at Plymouth Notch, Vermont, to swear in his son, Calvin, as 30th U. S. President. When President Coolidge's present term expires, he will have held supreme office for five years, seven months...
...then of the Lord; Saul invested always with the dignity of his Roman citizenship, yet humble enough to suffer fiercely, meanly, publicly for peace in his church; Saul the clever theologian and subtle Greek philosopher, never- save once in his proud youth at the feet of Gamaliel-never letting intellectual pride smother the pure flame of Christ's love; ending his days, near the time of Rome's burning, in humble age, saying: "I am only an old man, to whom one day a thing of wonder happened, and who has gone over the world seeking people...