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Effeminacy Hypothesis. William II, says Author Ludwig, possesses "the gifts of a high-strung nature beyond a doubt." With his incurable, withered arm he should have turned to a brilliant civil career; but, alas, the military tradition of Prussia demanded as Crown Prince a dashing cavalry officer. Worse still his mother, Victoria² (daughter of British Queen-Empress Victoria), was repelled by her son's deformity, hated him, and once remarked inhumanly to an Austrian nobleman: "You can scarcely imagine how I admire your handsome, intelligent and graceful Crown Prince³ when I see . . . my uncouth, lumpish son William...
...onetime "Ohio gang"), held in awe by many a Filipino as the Personal Representative of Big White President Coolidge, has come home. He landed at Seattle, Wash., last week after some five months of poking through tropic seas, doffing his white helmet to Sulu chieftains, smiling blandly at high-strung Filipino politicos. Much more than all that is recorded judiciously in his comprehensive report to the President on the economic and governmental condition of the Philippines...
Meanwhile the personality and eccentricities of Mr. Nobel were recalled at length. Born in 1833, at Stockholm, he was so delicate and sickly as a child that when his family moved to St. Petersburg it was feared that he would not survive. There, however, he grew into a nervous high-strung youth, who paradoxically combined extreme personal sensitiveness with a passion for explosives...
...General Wood, William Howard Taft, W. Cameron Forbes (former Governor General), General James G. Harbord, General Hugh E. Scott, Martin Egan (of J. P. Morgan & Co.). The appeal for 1,800 needy mestizo children, as they are called, said: "These children certainly are worth saving. Generally of a high-strung, nervous temperament, and rather emotional, their blood characteristics appear very prominently. They have initiative and imagination, which are wholly lacking in the native. You never mistake them. Their light hair, blue eyes, and clean-cut American features are too evident. The girls,, i if educated, are particularly sought as wives...
FAME - Micheline Keating - Putnam ($2.00). A tangle of love, libertines and the pursuit of happiness among stage folk and artists, including an CEdipus twist where the high-strung heroine and her father, not knowing their relationship, nearly wed, is pretty strong stuff for a person of 18 to attempt in a first novel. Yet, for all her stock phrases, young Miss Keating has more than a smattering of stage lore, and accomplishes her broad effect with the naive directness of one to whom the ancient tatters of passion are shining raiment bright...