Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the news referring to Chile, my country, there was a sympathetic reference to our 'protective tariff" for the benefit of Chilean smelting interests. Allow me to thank you for this, especially because I know that you are not fishing, but saying this because you broad-mindedly and openly mean...
...footnote on page 60 of your issue of Nov. 12 an interesting remark of Wm. Lyon Phelps' about Father Riggs. In view of Prof. Phelps' observation that "he has done both" (i.e., written musical comedy and joined the Catholic clergy), you will be interested to know that Father Riggs' two most recent literary ventures are a highly theological translation from the French just published by Macmillan-and a translation of Rostand's "The Last Night of Don Juan." The translation of Rostand, as yet unpublished, is as beautiful, subtle and polished as the theological translation...
...Hoover and retinue went ashore at Amapala to the cheers of 4,000 Hondurasians. He made his first good-will speech: "We know that the nations and the institutions we have created can flourish only in peace and mutual prosperity...
...Northwestern University out of his automobile on Michigan Avenue one night and pumped two slugs into him for scraping a fender as he drove past; and hardbitten Joe Saltis, gun-toting beer gangster, who was still at large last week after a six-month "search" by police who know him well...
...point that displeased and shocked many of us in the Stadium was that any Harvard man should undertake to make a parody of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, one of the most sacred treasures of American literature. We all know that it was delivered upon a most solemn occasion and was written to dedicate a National Cemetery for those who gave all on that great battlefield. There is nothing humorous in using such an address as a medium for alleged wit, no matter how superficially clever the parody may appear to the Ivy Orator himself. Many of us present...