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...Grand Old Man," it is Mr. Warren. His fame goes back to the Civil War when he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry on the field of battle; back to the '70s when he, astride a horse, was making Wyoming something more than an Indian playground; back to the '80s when he was Governor of the territory; back to 1890 when he first entered the U. S. Senate. ... And perhaps in 1931, when his present term expires, he will be guiding his last annual three-billion-dollaf flock of appropriation bills through a stormy Senate...
...School" was used in a more general sense than it is today, to designate that type of painting most readily associated with the thought of an Art Gallery. Such drawings usually form part of a group within which only experts can distinguish the light of an individual hand--a playground for pedantry, enchanted with the name "Old Master", but devoid of significant, spontaneous vitality. In the current exhibition, there are but fifteen men represented, but the collective gesture of those fifteen is sufficient for a long period or art history and for many phases of genius. For such "esprit", there...
...York it is the collective skyscraper at the city's workaday hub that breeds more subways, less money for other needs, and more motor vehicles in the skyscrapers' service to kill more children in the children's only playground, the roadways between the sidewalks of New York...
Spectators attending the game in cars and who park their cars either in the private parking field on the Brighton playground off Western Avenue may on playground off Western Avenue may enter through Gate 4, at the southern corner of the field. Ticket holders leaving their automobiles on the Metropolitan Parkway in Brighton should enter the enclosure either, through Gate 14, at the southwest corner of the field, or through Gate 19, opposits the Newell Boathouse on the north side of Soldiers Field...
When the Detroiter goes to New York and seeks diversion at Miss Texas Guinan's playground she will no doubt hall him as a "big dollar man" from the west and plead with the audience to "give this little boy a hand". And they will--the New Yorkers; they love to give hands to big dollar men. But the worm may turn, the native of the Michigan metropolis may show them that Detroit's income tax figures are not her only boast; the census substantiates-their claim of being city folks. And while they are in full possession...