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Finally, genius or not, politician or not, when Mr. Mellon spoke about the Presidency, people heard him as his party's greatest patrician. Today he fills the place in U. S. public life so long occupied by Charles Evans Hughes. Regardless of such sneerers as the New York World, which reminded people that Mr. Mellon came to office during the Harding regime, no Republican had a better right than he to talk, as he did last fortnight, about "the standard that we have set for this high office." Perhaps a thought of this crossed Candidate Lowden's agitated...
Amadeo Peter Giannini, a Sicilian peasant by ancestry, acts the Roman patrician by nature. He believes himself the guardian as well as the leader of his clients. Because he knows that the ever-expanding activities of his bank and investment corporation tend to stir up speculation in their securities, he warns the unwary...
First in authority and prestige among news organs supporting the British Liberal Party is the famed Westminster Gazette, to which regularly contributes that patrician journalist, J. Alfred Spender, recently in the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 23). Last week the Westminster Gazette quietly merged with the London Daily News, a more materially potent Liberal daily, which has flourished vastly since Charles Dickens became its first editor, 82 years ago. As the fruit of last week's merger there will shortly appear The Daily News and Westminster Gazette. Survives unmerged, in London, only one Liberal paper, the morning Daily Chronicle...
Count Luckner seemed to have a penchant for disorderly conduct on the high seas from the time he first became cabin boy after running away from the patrician respectability of his home. Like the hero of the Aeneid, he suffered many hardships upon land and sea, at one time even becoming, as did John Masefield and an equally August Figure in American poetry, interested in keeping a saloon. It might be ungracious to continue the parallel of Mr. Masefield and the A. F. further, but it would appear that Count Luckner drank up most of his profits and even part...
...exhibition. But, being a first class decorator, he knew he would see even finer things than tapestries at Mr. Lihme's. He knew that in the Lihme drawing-room was the $50,000 "Portrait of an Old Man" which Peter Paul Rubens painted some 300 years ago, a patrician subject whose disdainful brow, thin smile and scornfully intelligent eye must have been a relief to the painter after his usual run of exuberantly plump females and amorous burlies. On the west wall of the same room would be a large canvas by Rubens' sensitive pupil, Anthony van Dyck...