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...Paris, in the city to which people have come for centuries when they wished to create beauty or to have it admired, where even a roly-poly pastry cook may wear a long tie and the title of the proudest profession, Ralph Adams Cram, famed U. S. architect, last week addressed the American Club: "The arts of the world are suffering an eclipse," said Architect Cram. "Creative music has almost ceased. Painting has fallen back and sculpture is in almost the same condition." Soon Architect Cram qualified this lugubrious assertion: "All the arts except American architecture have fallen back...
...barely won the championships over Finland. So narrow was the margin that weak women in the tournament might well destroy one of the proudest of U. S. records...
...international convention of the Loyal Order of Moose in Philadelphia (see p. 28). Said he: "As a member of the Senate of the United States, a citizen of Philadelphia, and a member of the Philadelphia Lodge of Moose for 20 years, I welcome you to Philadelphia. This is the proudest moment of my life." Miles Poindexter, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator from Washington, returned from Peru where he has functioned for four years as ambassador. Loquacious, onetime Senator Poindexter made remarks: "There are heavy investments of American capital in Peru. ... It is a country of immense natural riches...
...capital, last week, I encountered a man who asked to borrow a dollar to get a bite of lunch. Said I to him: 'That's an old story. I don't believe you're broke, but here's the dollar. This is the proudest moment of my life.' That man was Senator James Couzens of Michigan, richest of all my colleagues, one of the original stockholders of the Ford Motor...
...this development is of relatively recent origin, and it is only with the passing of Oliver Wendell Holmes, that we must mourn the departure of the great conversationalists. Among all the charming talkers of the Saturday Club, one of Boston's proudest traditions, where gathered for dinner Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, and others, he was admitted to be the most sparkling. It is fortunate that his wit and brilliance have been preserved for posterity in the table talks of the "Autocrat" and the "Professor...