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...assistant in charge of applications for clemency, to inspect the records of all such applications, to place before the President all facts on which action should be based...
Musing wearily on the futility of funny men, the Scholar drags himself to Broadway to inspect the latest models in professional hilarity. He takes his post in the Winter Garden where the current Passing Show unrolls its gorgeous length. The screaming point is reached when one Roy Cummin gs, in the manner of a concert tenor, walks slowly from the wings, heaving with the impending agony of solemn singing. He opens his mouth for the first rush of song?and falls on his face. The audience dissolves in tears of frantic delight...
Those who, by following the original advice, find themselves several hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of dollars the poorer thereby, have at least the satisfaction of knowing that Science itself erred with them. The action of the stockmarket has thus been shown highly irrational and indefensible. One has only to inspect the Charts to become convinced...
Pithecanthropus Erectus. His alleged descendants now seek to inspect his bones...
...John Weeks, wife of the Secretary of War, is convalescing from an attack of blood poisoning. After her sea voyage through the Panama Canal with the Secretary, she traveled directly to Chicago from San Francisco, while Mr. Weeks stopped in Utah to inspect army posts...