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Earlier in the spring, Countess Barbara sent Solicitor William M. Mitchell abroad to arrange a divorce, proceedings of which are now going on in Denmark. "My sum," the terms are Danish the child Count and was a quoted as fantastic said to Mr. Mitchell. The quoter bald, pink-cheeked Solicitor Mitchell himself, sole witness in the case to date. The child, as everyone knew, was two-Lance Haugwitz-Reventlow, now a ward in Chancery. The "fantastic sum" later named by Solicitor Mitchell was $5,000,000, about one-eighth of the esti value of Countess Barbara's fortune...
...TIME quoter and cover to cover reader of your magazine, my confidence was completely shaken after reading under Business & Finance your analysis of the penny chewing-gum business in the articles "Bowman's Bubbles...
...Governor is going before the country on the proposition that Thomas Jefferson was a better man than Alexander Hamilton. . . . The fearless one will eventually come out against the extravagance of Grant's second administration. ... A primer for voters might well begin with the injunction 'Never trust a quoter.' ... I found:-'This reminds me of what Chesterton Keenly remarked. . . . Abraham Lincoln could say today. ... As Woodrow Wilson so wisely put it. ... I like Andrew Jackson's blunt statement that.' ... A careful tally reveals the following extracts: Woodrow Wilson, two; Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt...
Investigation revealed the unportfolioed "Ambassador" to be John Barrett, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias, Rotarian, publicist, onetime U.S. Minister to Siam, Argentina, Panama, Colombia, longtime (1907-20) director general of the Pan-American Union, quoter in Who's Who of how Theodore Roosevelt praised his work...
...courting assiduously for months is plain stymied. "They give me the cold shoulder," is too often the story of the shipping clerk who is out of it because he lacks the ambition to become at least bi-lingual in the mad search for knowledge. The primitive day of the quoter of Shelley has passed, and John may be forgiven for not saying a word all evening only if he has said it in several tongues, and given it a psychological inference. All this is, of course, a plain challenge to the colleges, a challenge which too probably will be answered...