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...barrister, defending poor clients who sought him at the inn. Strangely this scene was re-enacted last week in Geneva. Clients: representatives of all the Powers and half the nations of Europe. Briand: still Briand. Inn: the white, sumptuous Hotel des Bergues, overlooking Lac Leman and Overlooked by Towering Mont Blanc...
...grains shown. Herman Trelle, of Wembley, Peace River, Alberta, Canada, brought samples of oats which yielded him 123 bushels to the acre. The judges gave him the prize, and thus for the sixth time in eight years a Canadian won the oats championship. C. Edson Smith of Corvallis, Mont., was champion wheat raiser...
...over the Alleghenies stirred pilots to call it the most dangerous hop they had ever made. Over half of the planes came down short of the stopping point owing to weather, engine or equipment defects. No one was injured. Two planes landed ahead of the field at Glendive, Mont., the following day. On the afternoon of the third day 12,000 people waited eagerly at Felts Field, Spokane, for the winners. To while away time, Army flyers stunted over the field. Specks appeared in the eastern sky. The winner of the Class B race was C. W. Meyers of Detroit...
...called Ohio Gang originated with Ohio's "Big Four" politicians: Mark Hamia, J. B. Foraker, George B. Cox, Charles Dick. Later additions were Harry M. Daugherty, Guy D. Goff, Warren G. Harding, Howard Mannington, Charles R. Forbes, Jesse Smith, E. Mont Reily, Daniel Richard Crissinger, George Busby Christian...
...cells lives a drab old maid with a parrot. To Mrs. Bowman's son (Douglass Mont-gomery), who has groped to young manhood in blindness, the spinster is kind, therefore beautiful. He venerates her as he does his own frowsy mother, who, when he was seven and still had his sight, must have been a golden beauty. His illusion of a pretty, black-eyed inamorata brings his first sex consciousness. It sweeps into his life with bewildering ecstasy, as the music of a symphony orchestra might come suddenly to a chanting savage. Into his world of sound, thus transposed...