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...friend tells us that he lived in Gore Hall in his Freshman year four years ago, and that his bathroom there was blessed with a real tub. The next year when his dormitory was incorporated into a House, he moved away, aspiring successfully to a garret underneath a floodlit spire. But he has missed his tub terribly; he has longed many times for the warm artificial pond wherein he used to read, write themes, sleep, invent refreshments and occasionally washed...
...Jersey College for Women Mrs. Garret Augustus Hobart, widow of McKinley's Vice President Doctor of Philanthropy...
...readers, learning that the present Duke is still a persistent foxhunter at the age of 84, and noting the aura of British vigor apparent in your portrait of him, may guess that he comes of a family notable solely for its blustering militance. Such a guess would be incorrect. Garret Wellesley, Earl of Mornington and father of the first Wellington, had tastes which were singular indeed in the begetter of an Iron Duke. It is known to relatively few Americans, save such insatiable antiquaries as myself, that the Earl of Mornington was addicted to playing violin sonatas while seated...
...black ribbon in which closely wrapped figures hastened under the shuddering arcs to the bright shelter of heated chambers. Through the racing, crowding thunderheads above, there still broke a few dull rays of yellow light, which reflected eyrily from Memorial's gray and blood slates into the oaken garret. The Vagabond turned from the casement to the dark and empty chimney corner and lighted the lamp by his deep leathern chair; the scurrying forms occupied by nothing, the sight of Sever's portent walls, ugly without benefit of age, called in him a longing for life, for knowledge, for power...
...real backstage power in shaping legislation. The nearest Vice President Curtis ever came to influencing public affairs was when his vote broke a tie on tariff flexibility. Some day in the Senate corridor his marble bust will take its place along with those of James Sherman, Charles Fairbanks, Garret Hobart, Levi P. Morton, Adlai E. Stevenson and other substitutes who never got into the great game of running the country...