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...this empty noise Chancellor Marx turned a deaf ear and remained mute. It was learned, however, that either he or his henchman, Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, would go to London if invited by the Powers assembled there. An attempt by the Parties of the Right to move a resolution of no confidence in the Government was defeated by 172 to 62 votes...
With this enlightening retrospect, it is clearly advantageous to single out parellels, that the incipiently great among us may be recognized. First, there is the apathetic student who carves monograms in Sever while the lecturer's torrent of words slides off him. A "mute, inglorious Milton", taking his first steps! Likewise, what of the note-book sketcher? Another Whistler in the cotyledonous stage, learning his art under scholastic duress! As for the Darwins those fraternities and organizations that demand initiatory cats doubtless have their place in the education of great men. Or such, at least, are the comforting inferences...
...sparks of a glowing humanity filtered through. The hero is a mute inglorious Milton?except when selling Gold Strap Food Products. He wins a village girl, a trifle shrilly pitched but cleverer than himself. Unable to fuse his mental ivory and cardiac gold, she elopes with a traveling trombonist. Twenty years' leave of absence from humanity in Alaska bring husband back to the scene still a financial and cerebral failure. Wrenching the play quite out of shape, Miss Gale screws on a happy ending...
Calvin Coolidge: " It is said that Mrs. Coolidge, questioned as to how she gets along with a man who talks so little, replied: 'You know I was a teacher in a deaf-mute college (Clarke's School for the Deaf, Northampton, Mass.) before we were married, and had become thoroughly accustomed to long periods of restful silence...
...Newark, N. J., Miss Esther Woelper, deaf-mute, was married to Frank Hoppaugh, deaf-mute, by the Rev. John H. Kent, deaf-mute...