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...American metropolises, New York, have been many and in some cases highly skillful. Now Agnes Rogers has arranged her New York into a book of photographs, assembled with superb judgment from the huge incoherent mass of subjects which the great city presents. Lower Manhattan at dawn, Scarsdalers waiting herd-like for the 8.52; a homeless drunk sprawled on the sidewalk, semi-human sardines jammed into the subway; Mrs. $25,000-a-year-executive smugly viewing the man-made greenness of the Bronx River Parkway; Miss $15-a-week dictation sponge engulfing a hectic ham-on-rye; sunshine on the glories...
...arrived about 3.30 in toto at the field of the Wheeler School which was being used for the game. The field is outside Providence and here a pleasant pastoral effect was provided by the presence in a background of fields and trees, of cows, sheep, and a herd of goats whose faintly reproachful voices were frequently raised, by some strange coincidence, directly after a foul had been committed. --Radcliffe News...
...commoner, the usual flurry ensued as Englishmen turned to their Encyclopedia Britannica and once more were titillated by this technicality: "The children of the Sovereign, other than his eldest son, though by courtesy 'princes' and 'princesses,' need a royal warrant to raise them de jure above the common herd; and even then, though they be dubbed 'Royal Highness' in their cradles, they remain 'commoners' till raised to the peerage...
...great herd of cattle that flowed along the Irish roads into cat-famed Kilkenny last week was no ordinary market-day job. For weeks Irish farmers have fought off government collectors come to get the annuity tax. Last week the tax collectors seized the delinquents' cows. A cordon of police accompanied the herd. Mad as Kilkenny cats, the farmers went ahead, felling trees across the road and cutting telephone and telegraph wires. Patiently cows, collectors and police plodded over all obstructions into Kilkenny (known to its own citizens as Cill Cainnig). A sullen mob of farmers watched...
...interesting to note in this same article that "the Government dared not hire men to care for its 50,000 head for fear of being accused of strike-breaking." This fear on the part of the Government, which caused it to allow this immense herd to suffer after being corralled by its officials, may explain in part why our Government is being defied and its Federal arbitrators made monkeys of by A. F. of L. unions in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Chicago, Kohler and other cities. This noisy organization apparently has the present Administration on the run, casting aside in their...