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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traveled to the U. S. to plead the cause of his mutilated country. Standing erect, well over six feet tall, gaunt & sinewy, his grizzled beard almost covering his necktie, he is a commanding figure. And speaking a dozen languages fluently?English almost perfectly?with a rare gift for oratory and inescapable charm, he has made himself a world-wide figure, known intimately, and usually beloved, by the statesmen of at least two continents. It is doubtful if the word of any living Hungarian carries as much moral weight as that of Count Apponyi...
...Holmes would have the student incessantly pursue a definite field of concentration from the time he enters a junior high school until the day of his graduation. Some might be able to boast of a little precocity, but rare indeed is the lad who can, or who would be willing to, divine his concentrated study, his profession, or even his prospective college, on the morning that he enters a junior high school. And still more ephemeral is the high school teacher profound enough to advise the child what life-course he should follow...
...year. "God has been good to that man," said Mr. Flint. Chicagoans recalled that last month their townsman, Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roe- buck & Co., 115-millionaire, issued a statement on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Mr. Rosenwald said: "I was lucky, not a genius. With rare exceptions, the man who accumulates wealth displays no more genius than the prize-winner in any lottery. It is by luck that a man gets hold of a good thing at the right time and more by luck that he holds...
...Carrie King, now cubby-holed in a dingy Man- hattan hotel, it would be hard to recognize the sprightly, buxom girl who was one of the early Buttercups in Gilbert & Sullivan history. That was in the '70s, when she was equipped with a cheery smile and a rare mezzo-soprano voice...
...first novel, Glitter, got into cinema.* Little Sins looks like another sure-fire scenario but it is one of those rare books with more electricity in its pages than can ever be added to it in a projection room. Feeble Fantasy...