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...could remember Romancers Jules Verne or H. G. Wells having compassed a greater imaginative flight than Herr Rumpler. Yet many a newspaper reader with an open mind about the future filed away the despatch from Dusseldorf for their grandchildren to muse over some...
...Hylan never made a remark of that kind in her life. She is able and thoroughly capable of deporting herself in any place as the occasion demands. . . . With all her duties as a good wife and mother, as well as her special interest in her grandchildren, little John Hylan Sinnott and Marie Louise, she was always mindful of her duties as the wife of the Mayor, and few women probably read more than she does or are better posted regarding politics and public affairs or the proper conduct of men and women on all occasions...
...pronouncements. Taken together, however, they provided much solid food for thought, and an excellent opportunity for congratulating Count Volpi upon his success in apparently pleasing both his major creditors fairly well. The New York Times might scoff: "Both Great Britain and the U. S. gravely assume that our grandchildren will be collecting on the Italian debt. . . . Who lives will see, but it is extremely unlikely that he will see that." And the London Times might grumble: "Reduced to simple mathematical terms, the agreement represents the cancellation of approximately six-sevenths of the Italian war debt to this country." But basically...
Last week this most notorious of Queen Victoria's grandchildren made a gesture somewhat Edwardian in its expansiveness; he expended a sum estimated at 40,000 florins ($16,000) upon the celebration of his 67th birthday; he received 300 telegrams of congratulation...
...Paso, Tex., pours gentle, drawling scorn upon the romanticism with which Zane Greys and Harold Bell Wrights have invested the early inhabitants of the Southwest, and upon the paunchy, pasty-faced commercialism of the present inhabitants. Mock modest, feignedly casual, like a hoary old hell-raiser talking to his grandchildren, he draws upon his indiscriminate youth for gory chunks of six-gun realism quite as studied as that of the Covered Wagon or U. P. Trails he so vigorously denies. He explains the Jehovah complex of a gunman like John Selman, who resented any one else killing...