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Candidate LaFollette. ". . . We all owe him a debt of gratitude for exposing the corruption that went on under the eyes of poor unseeing Mr. Harding. . . . He governed a state long and well. People still live in it and grow rich. Corporations do not flee from it. He has served many years in the Senate and no extreme proposal has come in with his name on it. ... He has never recognized the validity of 'the smile that wins.' . . . Diplomacy has always seemed to Mr. LaFollette something base, something akin to a surrender of principles. I do not think...
...authors (Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson) owe no moderate debt to the cast for a performance that rubs elbows with perfection. Louis Wolheim (Hairy Ape) plays the drunken captain; William Boyd, the sergeant; and Leyla Georgie, a newcomer, the girl. Mr. Wolheim has the toughest face in the American Theatre, the toughest part as Captain Flagg, and he blends them irresistibly. The remainder of the company seems a superb selection. The play with any other cast would smell too sweet...
General von Ludendorff to the Prussian Fusiliers: "Your regiment was a thoroughly worthy part of the old Prussian Army. May its members never forget that and remain conscious of what they still owe...
...held what he designates as "the only library position that ever gave him any real exercise"−an exalted post in charge of all the circus posters deposited for copyright, which had to be spread out on the floor and measured with a yardstick. "To that," says he, "I owe my taste...
...eleven American cities of over 500,000 population owe the following sums: New York, $1,330,732,039; Chicago, $122,435,900; Philadelphia, $263,796,000; Detroit, $140,163,430; Cleveland, $136,480,932; Boston, $124,891,151; Baltimore, $119,991,060; Pittsburgh, $59,993,400; Los Angeles, $110,347,229; Buffalo, $56,850,581; San Francisco...