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...incapacity of Mrs. Harding caused the President to cancel even a partial trip over the Richardson Trail by automobile, as had been planned. The day after arriving in Fairbanks, the President and the chief members of his party spoke in the baseball park at Fairbanks. The temperature was 94° in the shade, and there were three cases of heat prostration in the audience. Mr. Harding declared that he felt himself to be a real sourdough, because he was the first President to visit Alaska. A part of the ceremonies was the presentation of a moose-hide collar, ornamented with gold...
...April, 1916, d'Annunzio was shot down in an airplane while scouting on the Italian front. He lay at Rome in danger of blindness, even death. Duse rushed, unbidden, to his bedside. Partial reconciliation followed...
George Bernard Shaw: "Said I: (in a debate at Martin's theatre): 'We are all partial robots. It is merely a question of how many hours a day we should be robots. I want to be a robot for two hours a day so that the remainder of the day I can be G. B. S. Give me the most mechanical job you can find. Send me into those soul killing occupations which are always denouncing, so that I do not exhaust my intellect...
...CRIMSON has begun to suspect that it is being treated to a dose of sarcasm. If we were "Life" or even Lampy, we should try to give payment in kind; but being only a newspaper we must reply on blunter methods. In passing, it might be remarked that partial quotation is virtually mis-quotation:--"Life's" summary of the CRIMSON's point of view is accurate, but it is incomplete...
...course, to keep out of foreign politics as much as possible. He cannot claim any credit for the agreement with Washington on the British debt; that was decided upon by Lloyd George. He tried to reduce unemployment by common-sense methods, but even this can only be termed a partial success. In short his policy, if he ever had one, was ultra-conservative...