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...National Convention assembled. In the middle of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, in the pit where the delegates sat, only a few days before ardent swimmers had been splashing. The roof, that had often resounded with cheering of prizefight fans and from which circus acrobats had dangled in airy peril, was decked with the colors of the nation. The Convention restaurant, every year, had exhibited the freaks of the circus. The theatre in the building, which ordinarily was the seat of indescribable plays set forth in indescribable Yiddish, had been converted into a "Convention Club," as advertising by a large...
...intelligentsia," At the present moment, even, there are many writers very pessimistic over man's present aesthetic sense, or, more narrowly, his ability to appreciate good literature and art. No less a writer than Mr. Hamlen Garland, in "the Bookman", sums up the bill board-movie-magazine peril in discouraging terms. His only consolation for the state in which frenzied fiction finds itself, is the doubtful one that time may change affairs, and that another century, may bring to the surface more of the latent "aesthetic sense" in the human race than is now present...
...That all investments and improvements made by Chile during her ocupancy of Tacna-Arica were made at her peril and may not be recovered...
...certain whether he is not in peril this very night," said Marquess Curzon...
...uncovered a realistic-at times amusing, at times sordid-picture of Japanese life. Beneath the rather melodramatic narrative runs an undercurrent of real seriousness, a sense of inscrutable, unconquerable differences between East and West, a shadow of the intangible fatalism of the Orient that is at once its peril and its charm...