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...cravais. The editor was tremendously relieved: "Labor has grown up, has assumed responsibility and gone to a good tailor. . . . . There were leading Conservatives and Liberals present with lords and men of great possessions, but labor held its own in the cut of its morning coat and the tilt and gloss...
...little to do with higher social education, although one may be obtained in the process of digging for the other. Popular fiction has over idealized scholastic matings. And now universities such as that for which the Nebraskan is the spokesman are faced with the problem of removing the gloss of idealism...
...late." The Rev. Canon Frederic Lewis Donaldson, first Socialist ever to become a Canon of Westminster Abbey: "In Barnet, suburb of London, I said: 'The silk [top] hat is a vicious, vile, ugly symbol of the ungodly Victorian. It is hard, unyielding, uncomfortable and pretentious, with an outside gloss and an inside smell. It is responsible for much of the baldness of the late generation which it typifies.'" . Rudyard Kipling, poet-story-teller: "My wife and I, aged 61, arrived last week in Rio de Janeiro. It became known that a Brazilian admirer, conscious of my flair...
...Germany England and France have been severely hit. At Nantes, France, the undertakers reported last week that they were four days behind with their burials. Their crogue-morts* complained of sore feet and demanded subsidy for new shoes. In Italy the authorities claimed they have no epidemic. But no gloss was smeared over the situation in Spain, Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. In Denmark King Christian and Queen Alexandrine were bedridden, and in Spain 200,000 politically less important people were afflicted...
...onetime National Grange president; and Edgar B. Brossard of Utah, already serving on the Commission under a recess appointment. To the Board he added Carl Williams, Oklahoma Democrat, farmer, stockman, editor. The other railway mediators: Representatives Samuel E. Winslow of Massachusetts; onetime Senator Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky; Gloss-brenner W. W. Hanger of Illinois, public member of the old Railway Labor Board; Hywel Davies, mediator for the Department of Labor...