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...William Allen White, who writes in Emporia, Kan., and talks anywhere, said last week in Brooklyn, N. Y.: "President Coolidge is as much of a mystic as any other New Englander ever has been, even Emerson; and his mysticism is that he believes that, given prosperity, justice will come as a byproduct. ... I think Calvin Coolidge represents the very best that can be said of this new commercial era in its political phase...
...Mystic Knight membership...
...opinion that sentiment was at times divided on major issues in our national politics, would have been a succulent morsel to the political bear-baiters of yesteryear. But they are dead, and in this day and age a pronunciamento from the White House Spokesman becomes imbued with that same mystic sanctity which enshrouds its author...
...were lost," related Mrs. Osborn, "in contemplation of that portrait, and after a few minutes' silence Professor Osborn said 'Sargent, you have captured a quattrocento mystic, a saint, a Saint Francis of Assisi.' Whereupon Sargent, in the ebullience of youth, literally jumped from the floor, saying, 'Osborn, do you see that in that face? That's what...
...Rabindranath Tagore, Indian mystic: "Homing from Europe, I passed last week through Athens. I did not visit the hill-crowning Parthenon. I remained at the villa of a German friend, eating candy...