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...Sofia. A company of soldiers bearing the Bulgarian national flag marched to the gate of the Yugo-Slavian Legation. The regimental band played the Yugo-Slavian national anthem and the soldiers saluted the Yugo-Slavian flag. M. Rakitch, Yugo-Slavian Minister to Bulgaria, and his staff, stood on the porch and watched the proceedings, which lasted ten minutes, with evident satisfaction...
...worse since Taft's time. In fact, they arc five-fold worse than they were then. This is the group that does the financing of the Republican Party. If Roosevelt were alive, no doubt he would be after it hammer and tongs, and denouncing its members for the political porch-climbers and second-story men that they...
...tennis! The only limit to its popularity and production of real stars is the lack of courts. On the school campus we have no room for courts so I leave our tennis net on the porch nights so the boys can get it at daylight and use our private court before breakfast. I never dreamed that volley ball could be so exciting and full of sport until I came to China. In fact, it is the most popular sport among the schoolboys of Foochow, and its simplicity has attracted the majority of our students to engage...
...World Court are about as related as Booker T. Washington and George!" -Ex-Senator Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota. (Mr. Kellogg favors U. S. entry into the Court, would avoid the League.) Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist, said in a speech at East Liverpool, Ohio, that during the front porch campaign of 1920, the then Senator Harding told him: "I want the U. S. to get into the League [of Nations] just as much as you do . . . I am opposed to the Wilson League . . . but the League can be changed . . ." "But in your own Party what will Senator Blank...
...Home Fires or will they, as in Icebound, find more of the comic than the tragic and go away feeling warmly amused ? It is hard to tell. Personally, I have seldom laughed so hard in any theatre as over a scene in which two youngsters seated on a front porch discuss eugenics. What a chance there was for burlesque-and how truly, safely and amusingly Mr. Davis has handled this scene. Mr. Davis' rescue from the ranks of melodrama is to be applauded. No one likes to see melodrama better than do I; but it must be a pleasure...