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Spengler believes that today we are in history's grandest age but sees no reason for individuals to be happy about it. "Greatness and happiness are incompatible and we are given no choice. No one living in any part of the world today will be happy. . . ." Conscious of his prophet's mantle, he says: "I see further than others ... I write not for a few months ahead or for next year, but for the future. . . . Among the few genuine historians of standing, none was ever popular. . . ." The old idealistic order is nearly over; the new day will...
...administered. Last week movers were cluttering up its halls with furniture from the offices of the moribund R. F. C. Pert young clerks by the score were inking up rubber stamps and, like hungry buzzards, Congressmen had already scented out the headquarters of the government's newest and grandest handout...
...moving cautiously, the Cortes continued last week the tremendous job of expropriating the great estates of the Grandees of Spain. Despite numerous petitions from Spanish intellectuals that his property be spared because of his great gifts to Spanish education, all estates of the Duque de Alba, Spain's grandest grandee and holder of 30 titles under the monarchy, will be confiscated. Also refused exemption last week were the lands of the Duke of Vitoria, but after formal protest by the British Government one Spanish grandee's lands were spared: those of the Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo, Arthur Charles...
...Edmund Gros. head of the American Hospital, hurried downstairs to where a group of reporters huddled in the half-light. He said: "The grandest lady of France and America died with a suffragist smile. There were no last words." Thus last week died Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, of bronchitis and heart disease, having lain ill since a paralytic stroke last...
Most sports have one or more Grand Old Men. Harness racing has dozens who jounce their old bones in old bright -varnished sulkies on Grand Circuit trotting tracks every summer. Grandest old man of trotting, until he died eight years ago, was Edward Franklin ("Pop'') Geers of Lebanon, Tenn., who won nearly $2,000,000 in prizes. Two more grand old men of trotting distinguished themselves last week, one in Ohio and one in New York, at Goshen where the Grand Circuit reached its peak in the Hambletonian Stakes, one-mile race named for the greatest...