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...beloved 'Eaglet' " the "greatest and most disastrous case of all times, excepting the Crucifixion of the devine Son of Man," and reached its climax in: "Yes, but the ashes of the darling baby, victim of a fiend urged by greed of gain, and seeking pleasure, are mute witnesses of the Crime, while within every American's breast there is a beating of the heart, tolling the death-knell of every gangster, while the Stars and Stripes fly from every staff and masthead...
MISS WINSLOW, the executive secretary of the College Poetry Society of America, has compiled and edited an anthology for which new official duties have especially qualified her. She, if anybody, ought to know all the mute, inglorious young Miltons, male and female, who are strictly meditating the thankless Muse in college dormitories throughout the land. Her car is attuned to the squawking as well as the melody of the collegiate lyres on the campus. This book reveals both her knowledge and her sympathy. All the contributors are college men and women, but their interests, beyond that single tie of unity...
...unaware that his Muse was often mute to his friends. Even as a little lad, Plato was his teacher; and philosophy his friend. He recalls his preference for the tales of the ancient sages; and the disappointment of his nurse who loved to read him fairy tales. There was a story of a wise man who lived in a tub and told an emporor to stand out of his light; there was a tale of a man who fell in a well while looking at the stars; and once upon a time there was a philosopher who plucked the feathers...
...physical cause can usually be cured. Bad tonsils which make a girl nervous can be removed. If a child is a helpless, mute, untidy idiot because he is oxycephalic (cone-headed), nothing remedial can be done...
...Lamonts get thrown into jail for communistic agitation and Coughlin rules the waves, people who still own million-dollar nests at Newport speak of them apologetically, if at all, and hope furtively that no one will noise it about. While the gleaming Taj Mahals still stand in not-so-mute testimony of the glory that was Ogden Goelet's, Cornelius Vanderbilt's, and Oliver Belmont's, most of the notables of Newport have packed up the family jewels and scandals and gone off in search of simpler dwelling-places on the coasts, of Maine. Not only did conscience-stricken Ogden...