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...promised that during his absence there would be no evictions, no forced tax collection. Because without his attendance there seemed little chance of the conference accomplishing its aims, from several quarters gentle pressure began to be directed toward St. Gandhi. The S. S. Mooltan, bearing the Indian delegates, drew nearer to London. From its wireless room came stronger and stronger appeals to the Mahatma to drop his immediate grievance, represent his 270,000,000 Hindus at the Round Table. During the feverish last hours of the British Government which fell fortnight ago. William Wedgwood Benn, Secretary of State for India...
...steaming water. Daisy Geyser nearby, which has been erupting every 100 min. ever since white men have known it, paused. After a two-hour delay Daisy went to work again. Old Faithful, some distance away, faithfully continued its 65-min. spouting, but small geysers, boiling springs and mudholes nearer the Splendid were drained of their waters. Two park employes posted themselves beside the Splendid to record its behavior...
...Gosse made the London Times Literary Supplement portentous and powerful by his often anonymous but always well-known presence; but he had many a row to hoe before he became head gardener. Son of an almost violently religious naturalist, he was teethed on doctrine but never got nearer the kingdom of heaven on earth than working a brief, unhappy while in one of Dr. Barnardo's London orphanages. A timid and touchy man, Gosse was not cut out to be a good mixer with the masses. He got a job in the cataloguing section of the British Museum, became...
...choose between Patterson s Daily News and Macfadden's Evening Graphic. To him both are tabloids and thereby tarred with the same brush of blatant sexationalism. The fact is that the News has definite pretensions to being a newspaper; the Graphic none. Somewhere between the two but perceptibly nearer the News, falls the Hearst-Kobler Daily Mirror...
...five newspapers in Washington none is great. None, perused by a man from Mars, would suggest itself to him as a journal of the Capital of a powerful nation. All are, to a degree, the provincial organs of ;he District of Columbia. And nearer the bottom of the scale of merit than the top is the Post, of which Oswald Garrison Villard once said: "Its chief claim to fame is that Sousa named an excellent march after...