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Over the farms of the middle west, over those sunburnt and dreary acres which have lain in the hands of one family for generations, there is a spirit of contentment, of satisfaction with the ways of God, which convinces the natives of the Bible Belt that they are the Lord's chosen people. In a romantic interpretation this is the spirit of the soil, mystical, but nourishing and real. In a materialistic psychology the observer might merely comment that the hinds realize that in prosperity or dearth, fair weather or foul, their lands will feed them and save them from...
...fortune and was skating on the thin edge of personal bankruptcy. All I had left was my mother." In a book called The Voice of Young America, he attacked U. S. business methods, advocated a better distribution of wealth. "It's the same old story. ... I myself had lain with trouble. That is why I changed...
...claw in the past two decades Southampton has snapped up most of Britain's passenger ocean traffic, ended a 19th Century slump. For three centuries Southampton's too shallow basin, where King Canute may have spoken to the tide and whence the Pilgrims' Mayflower sailed, had lain nearly empty. Humiliated as a "decayed town," South ampton was further humiliated by becoming a bathing...
Over the noisome brown Gran Chaco, battling doormat of Bolivia and Paraguay, ominous silence has lain for more than a month. Paraguayan soldiers, backed against their Verdun, a hummock topped by French-built Fort Nanawa, have had nothing to do but scratch hard-biting Chaco lice. In far-off Geneva, where they could not see the smile on the face of Bolivia's German General Hans Kundt, complacent League statesmen thought their efforts to promote a truce were bearing fruit. But ingenious General Kundt had set his Bolivian soldiers to the sort of work Bolivians do best-digging deep...
...American Hospital, hurried downstairs to where a group of reporters huddled in the half-light. He said: "The grandest lady of France and America died with a suffragist smile. There were no last words." Thus last week died Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, of bronchitis and heart disease, having lain ill since a paralytic stroke last...