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"Gee Whiz!" Small wonder that rugged old Senator Hearst was surprised when his gangling son came home and, out of all the riches he might have chosen, asked for the Examiner, a pitiable rag taken in for a bad debt. But greater was the Senator's surprise when "Willie...
Kipling's scriptural utterance (that "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet") is made to appear more pontifical than profound by Authoress Wain's House of Exile, an autobiographical record of how a U. S. woman became an adopted member of an...
The Vagabond recalls such things, and how Bismarck in his forsaken years had only dogs to love and mourn, how Kipling bid ". . . you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear." Phantom has taken his place among shades. The day is denied its white stone, for one remembers...
"The Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady are sisters under the skin," Kipling wrote. The parallelism between upstairs where Robert Marryot is taking leave of his wife and below stairs where Alf Bridges, the butler, is kissing his baby goodby, is maintained throughout "Cavalcade."
Birthdays. Frank Billings Kellogg, 76; Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), 70; Rudyard Kipling, 67; Harvey Samuel Firestone. 64; Edwin Arlington Robinson, 63; Lucrezia Bori, 43; England's Prince George, 30; Princess Maria of Italy, 18.