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...great example of the manhood of America."-Henry Breckenridge, President Wilson's Assistant Secretary...
...cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned jibaro (peasant). Porto Rican poets hymn the sport as the essence of manhood and beauty...
...accomplished and vigorously, too, by presenting the case of a husband whose wife is about to deceive him. The husband prisons his wife and banishes her paramour, so that his son's name may never be smirched by her evil doings. The son, when he grows to lusty manhood, follows his father's footsteps into a similar domestic snare; he, too, when his mother tells him the story of her extra-marital spasm, sends away the lover and insists on honor for his son's sake. His wife refuses to adopt this course; for so doing...
...Michigan district where he eventually betook himself. But below the surface he found a metal far more useful to the industries of man-copper. He discovered the rich Baltic coppermine in the Lake Superior copper-district, and he managed the Hecla mine. The son, however, when he reached manhood, at first would have nothing to do with copper. He preferred to deal with another subsoil wealth-the oil that John D. Rockefeller and his partners were selling. In that way he met the late Marcus Daly, western mine-promoter and Montana banker. John D. Ryan in 1901 (when...
That famous hero of poetry, Abdul, the Bul-bul Emir, would be ashamed of his countrymen if he could, know the present sad condition of Turkish manhood. When the movies were introduced into Turkey a comparatively short time ago the promoters of the new form of amusement copied the methods in use in America in their production, and evidently designed their theaters after American models. But they failed to consider the requirements of their public. When the tired business men of that city invaded the new sources of entertainment they found to their dismay that seats designed for athletic citizens...