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...author writes that the radical-socialist party" is further on the conservative side than the French Socialists", but neither is on the conservative side. They are both avances--which I shall translate by radical--and what exactly is meant by French Socialists, I don't know. Does he refer to the Socialistes de France or to the Socialistes S.F.I.O. or does he lump them all together in one dread category...
Older critics still refer nostalgically to the way Olive Fremstad interpreted the great Wagner heroines. The younger generation of operagoers hears little about the woman who, from the beginning of the century to the time of the War, was one of the most vital, colorful figures appearing anywhere in public. Fremstad was the daughter of a Swedish masseuse and a Norwegian doctor who gave up a profitable practice in Oslo to go to the U. S. as a Methodist missionary. Settling in St. Peter, some 75 miles from Minneapolis, the self-appointed evangelist toured the Minnesota countryside, holding burning revival...
...whole piece seemed to be a reaction of one who was sore because one of the boys wasn't playing the game according to instructions. And of course the game we refer to is the rich man's game. --Ohio State Lantern
...XVIII & Charles X? ... You say your enemies are Communists. Bad as it is, you are as bad! And you show your rottenness by attacking Free Masons; for those of France indeed are different from those of England & the U. S. . . . As to the dark pages-you refer to the Revolution, when after 175 years of licentiousness, tyranny & starvation, you refused to mend your ways & when the people threatened to make you, you, led by your foreign queen, her lover, & the King's brothers, called the foreigner into your country to fight your people. You, the nobles, clergy & their partisans...
...enclosure herewith "reveals" in greater detail the "Retire at Birth Plan," officially, "The Perpetual Prosperity Plan," to which you refer in your "Michigan's Main" election story, TIME, Dec. 30. ... Background of the use of this "Plan" in Michigan's campaign is about this: A subscriber to this newspaper, living in Battle Creek, at a dinner-table talk there recalled having read the "Plan," and sketchily detailed it to his friends as he recalled it. He had forgotten the title, but not the general idea. The result was that it was gossiped around and finally bobbed...