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...trivial body to the grave of failure. His gay parade was tinsel which the lights of critical Manhattan tarnished and destroyed. Careless and floodingly he wrote; careless they killed him. And now but for the pleasant pageant of their mockery of a funeral, they are quite willing to inspect his successor. Why did he live? Why did he die? He lived because there is even in the most sophisticated heart the occasional warmth of the chambermaid's love for the "Mayfairs" of life. He dies because there are too many who can satisfy that love fully as well...
...their party told officers of the University, to see the University which had done so much to further German art in this country through its Germanic Museum. It is to visit the Germanic Museum, in particular, that these Germans are making their pilgrimage to Cambridge. They will also inspect the Engineering School, and from there proceed to the Peabody Museum, the Business School...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge? with Secretary and Mrs. Sanders, Major Coupal (presidential physician), secret service men, etc.?took a morning's automobile ride through Chelsea, Revere Beach, Everett, Somerville, Aledford, Cambridge, Watertown. In that vicinity they stopped at the Arlington cemetery to inspect the graves of John and Mary "Coolidg" ancestors of the President in the 10th generation who both died in 1891, both aged 88. A stop was made at the Belmont Springs Country Club (of which Governor Coolidge was once a member) where the President bought cigars for his party...
...steamer Ingcrtrc, sent to rescue them, dropped anchor in a Spitzbergen fjord. A party of aviators aboard her unlashed their two seaplanes and waited for Amundsen's base ship, the Fram, to come back from the icefloes with a weather report before taking off for a flight to inspect horizons further north...
...Senate, after insisting on its right to inspect Mr. Warren with a political microscope, received the nomination of Mr. Sargent shortly after 1 p.m. and referred it to the Judiciary Com mittee (which met at 2:30 and, in half an hour, heard three Senators speak in Mr. Sargent's favor and reported unanimously in favor of the appointment), received the Committee's report later in the afternoon, considered it just a moment behind closed doors ; then opened the doors, had the motion to confirm put and answered in unison with a rumbling "Aye." There is reason to believe that...