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...Revolutions." "Spain is the most peaceful country that I have ever seen, notwithstanding the alarming reports that have been sent out from there. The whole trouble has been in the use of one word. In Spanish they refer to a change of government as a 'revolution,' and of course our people think that means turmoil and trouble. As a matter of fact, their 'revolutions' are nothing more than the ordinary changes of government in England and France...
...defense summed up: "I do not hesitate to refer to my client as one of the greatest criminologists in England. . . . It is well known that he was chiefly instrumental in securing the conviction of Sir Roger Casement (TIME, Dec. 28). . . . He is a son of the late Archbishop of York. . . . It is inconceivable that a man in Sir Basil's position and with his repuation and knowledge of the world could possibly find himself seated before a court on such a charge...
...Reporters would have preferred to be denied almost any other implement of their craft, but he paid them well and they were content to bribe elevator boys to warn them of the Big Chief's approach. Occasionally, however, when they were forced to lavatories for their smoke, they would refer unpleasantly to the Mohican Chain Stores, and among younger men the impression got about that Frank A. Munsey was the world's greatest grocery man, and a newspaper man only by grace of tin cans. Had they never heard the big story, as romantic and as true a tale...
...your issue of Nov. 23, p. 28, you refer to the Daily News (the first of two publications that have substituted the picture of the body for "X marks the spot" as merely the Daily News. But later in your reference to the Evening Journal you are careful to say the Hearst Evening Journal. Surely every one knows that the Evening Journal belongs to Hearst, but anyway, if you must tack the Hearst onto it, why not also mention the names of the gentlemen who own the Daily News? The latter would be news to more of your readers than...
...that the Crown Princess Nagako would be certain to give birth to a male heir. Then a pair of sacred cranes nested in a great pine tree almost at the imperial threshold, and this omen was thought to be so certain of fulfillment that the Japanese newspapers commenced to refer to the expected child...