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...world pauses to celebrate his birth four and a half centuries ago, it would rear a shaft of reverent devotion to his living memory, although that monument might be built from flawless granite, faced with stainless alabaster, edged with the rarest of marbles and raised to the loftiest heights to which human skill can ever ascend, this monument would be incomplete unless, in recognition of Luther's present day significance, there were emblazoned on its side in letters of imperishable gold, the challenge of this birthday anniversary, 'BACK TO LUTHER...
...first thing that occurs to the Vagabond personally, is a gaudy exit from Cambridge with drums a beating and colors flying, shouldering, the while, a pair of skis with a careless insouciance, as if to indicate that the loftiest of the White Mountains was but a mere trifle in the life of this hardy Alpinist. But the Vagabond may not go so far afield, and in the latter case a tremendous decision will confront him. Will he go to the Tremont Temple to have his soul saved by Billy Sunday, or to the Tremont Theatre and laugh with...
...heroine's feelings are almost as difficult to follow as Mr. Eyre's labyrinthine plot. But you must remember that you are observing specimens of the loftiest social strata who may be expected to have the most delicate and complex sensibilities. Even the butler is a deposed Russian striving to stifle his sense of nobility as well as his love for the heroine. And there is always the pleasure of hearing aristocrats indulging in their little jocosities, such as. "Adenoids are meant to be heard, not seen...
...Flight in the face of maternity?that divine maternity that, together with some brief physical suffering, gives the loftiest and deepest joys of life?is as culpable as the desertion of soldiers in the face of the enemy, as the attempt of the taxpayer to escape the payment of taxes...
...legionaries paraded in Paris. Some 2,000 then attended banquets, ceremonies, convention sessions. Two of the 2,000 did practically all of the speechmaking?General John Joseph Pershing and National Commander Howard Paul Savage. It was their privilege and duty to reiterate many a time the official aims and loftiest sentiments of the Legion's "pilgrimage." Over and over they rephrased, genuinely and impressively, the ideals that sent the A. E. F. abroad, the French valor that it saw there, the friendships that it formed there, the faith that the Legion returned to pledge there...