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...generation after the Civil War the Grand Army of the Republic was an incubus on national politics. It waved the "bloody shirt" from every crossroads stump. It packed Congress with its mem bers. It put Generals Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Harrison into the White House. It dictated legislation on pensions until the public cried loudly out in protest. Only with the coming of the 20th Century did Death down the G. A. R. as a political influence...
...tortured Norse brooding. Prime example is the central figure from the Folkunga Fountain at Linkoping, commemorating the legendary Swedish hero Folke Filbyter, progenitor of the royal Swedish house of Folkungarna. According to legend. Folke was a harsh man who incurred the wrath of the Church. Monks spirited his grand son away. For years Folke roamed the countryside on horseback, looking for the boy. After 24 years, as he was dying, he found his grandson well and happy, serving as the King's secretary. The Milles Folke Filbyter grips a weary horse between his knees. The horse, swinging sideways...
Died. Chief Stronghorse, 70, Grand Sachem of the surviving 24 councils of the Algonquin Indian tribe; after a lingering illness; in Cranston...
...Garrison Roebuck, United Brethren Minister of McClure, Ohio: the Grand American Handicap of the Amateur Trapshooting Association; at Vandalia, Ohio. Shooting at clay pigeons for the tenth time in his life, Trapshooter Roebuck broke 96 out of a 100 at 17 yards, won the shoot-off against Fred Harlow of Newark, Ohio and Ray F. Willbaum of Greenville, Ohio. He was awarded a silver replica of the A. Bennett Gates trophy, on which his name will be engraved; a $600 tea set; and $1,000 in cash...
...Francis) suspects Barrymore and finds evidence to justify her suspicions. It is necessary for Barrymore to explain to her with gestures, that he can manufacture a water-tight case against her unless she holds her tongue. Ably constructed, Guilty Hands is made into a murder story in the grand manner, a carnival of bad acts and good intentions, by Barrymore's elaborate characterization...