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...votes, while John D. Lynch, his opponent, had polled 16,571 votes. The election in Boston proved the closest of the three, with Mansfield edging out former Mayor Malcolm E. Nichols '99, by a margin of 1,892 votes. The contest was so close that a recount may be necessary. The total number of votes cast for the candidates from all 362 precincts was as follows: Mansfield, 69,731; Nichols, 67,839; Foley, 61,371; Parkman, 28,844; O'Connell, 10,204; Sullivan...
Tennessee gave Repealists their first bad scare when it turned in a wet majority of only 9,000 out of nearly 250,000 votes. Memphis and Nashville were barely able to overcome the Dry strength of Republican moonshining East Tennessee. There was some talk of a recount...
Every summer they come out--these articles on how to see little-known Boston, New York or San Francisco on practically nothing. And every summer the visitors get hold of them, follow directions, and are greeted by howls of delight from the natives when they recount the joys of the three-cent forry ride, or the tasty messes at Silvios, the Svenska Brot or Chez Rose-Marie...
...looking back indulgently on the foibles of his younger days with the perspective of a Charles Lamb and with somewhat of his pathos, his delight in small things and his sense of the beauty of human life. All that is wanting is a continuation of the book that will recount Grant Richards' life as a publisher and a writer, and that will trace the years from 1896 to the present
PERHAPS no one is better fitted to recount the fantastic, brilliant history of the post-war decade in Paris than Maurice Sachs. As the grandson of Bizet, composer of "Carmen," the grandson of Georges Sachs, the great friend of Anatole France and Briand, and of the Madame Straus Proust immortalized as Madame Verdurin, he was brought up among literary people whose reputations were already established. And later, as the protege of Cocteau, Maritain, and Max Jacob, he knew all that world of genius and bohemianism, so strange in its contradictions and all comprehending unity...