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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these last, the Democrats of the Commonwealth, who can cap a year of surprising triumph in Massachusetts with a shiny new stock of G. O. P. corruption, to be opened in case of need. Usually it is the Donkey that must go out of his way to look up the general ineptitude, flagrant piracy, and sneering aristocracy that he pointedly ascribes to the Elephant. But the first Tuesday was a troublous time for every one, from the Head of the Pharmacists down: and in the chaos, the pirates have begun to peach on one another. There may be some names...
...philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile...
Since this statement still seemed a trifle cryptic, smart reporters decided to look in their office encyclopaedia and see what Old Max had painted. Persons of superior culture know that he chose to paint subjects lashed and gored by Fate-the poor, the orphaned, the aged and desolate. For years Max Liebermann haunted the orphanages, asylums and old people's homes of Amsterdam and later the great German cities. A decade passed while critics flayed his canvases. Then slowly it was realized that Liebermann was doing for German art what Millet had done for French. Today...
...last, eager to see what this horrible sinner could look like, staggering, moaning, the congregation filed forward. Each man and woman peered. The casket was empty. A mirror in the bottom reflected the face of the person who stared...
...newspapers, insignificant Grischa fell under the category of discipline necessary to state maintenance. In vain did old von Lychow, beloved of his men, argue that it is justice preserves the state: "I know that justice and faith in God have been the pillars of Prussia, and I will not look on while her rulers try to bring them down...