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...Allen: "In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress." Thus fell Fort Ticonderoga for the first time (it was recaptured later by the Brit ish) and thus Ethan Allen made his fame as a Continental trooper. More important than the 48 soldiers taken prisoner was the capture of 100 cannon with great stores of ammunition which, the following year, helped General Washington drive Lord Howe from Boston...
...public ceremonies; a maxim of the fellowship is in substance: "Know all things but remain unknown." Founder Heindel died in 1916. his work is now continued by his wife and her associates. The Rosicrucian Brotherhood in San Jose, directed by H. Spencer Lewis, Imperator for North America, onetime Jew ish salesman, is joined to an international brotherhood conducted, like Freemasonry, on the lodge system. It extols good citizenship, patriotism, scientific and cultural self-improvement. Its primary significance is not religious. It claims descent from an occult and ancient line supposedly including the Egyptian sages and Sir Fran cis Bacon. Benjamin...
...American Embassy buildings in foreign lands up for discussion. You know of course, American officials have carried on in makeshift quarters in Tokyo since the 1923 earthquake. Both the British and American governments voted approximately one and half million dollars to rebuild their Embassies. The world-experienced Brit ish got busy-their Embassy is rising-it compliments the Japanese. The American Embassy after seven years seems to be still a dream. Where is the action for which Americans are noted? If we are to believe foreign markets must consume the surplus production of our home factories, you should...
...into the street released Cyrano from a life of wenches, duels, shames, brawls, intoxications, fruitless ambitions, precious vanities - all of which, save the first, he actually blamed on his nose. "Most of our Academicians," opined Napoleon, "are writers whom one admires with a yawn." His biographer Merezhkovsky (pronounced Meer-ish-kawf-skee) is not such a writer. A strange trilogy has "made" Merezhkovsky - a trilogy distinguished by vividness, mysticism and symbolism. It consists of three novels, each one glorifying some significant man into an Antichrist - Julian the Apostate, Leo nardo da Vinci, Peter the Great. But these are novels...
...keeps abreast of the foibles of the art world, but turns from them to pulsating scenes about him. No one is bewildered by Davidson sculpture. He builds no weird convocations of planes, no fever ish conceits of form. Like the sculptors of the Roman tribunes, his primary con cern is the search for character. The roster of Davidson subjects includes Anatole France, Feodor Chaliapin, Charles Gates Dawes, John Joseph Pershing, Wellington Koo, Woodrow Wilson, Marshal Foch, Georges Clemenceau. He went to the Versailles Peace Conference to see faces. When he forgot his pass he acted as a messenger in order...