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...shaven and of impressive mien, Franz von Mendelssohn did not go to Washington last week. He addressed the congress, whose president he will be next year, from Berlin. "My voice," said Mighty Mendelssohn, "as that of a single individual coming across the ocean, is weak and feeble. But I remind you that other voices are making the same appeal . . . the voices of . . . the 20,000,000 unemployed in the world...
...stranger to the ways of city hoodlums, Attorney General Bennett likes to remind people that he was born in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Mild of manner, blond, well set up, he made precedent last autumn by getting himself elected to the State's chief legal post. Not only is he one of the youngest (37) to hold the office, but the first Democrat in eight years. In 1918 he emerged from the Army a pursuit pilot, although he never got to France. While working for J. P. Morgan & Co., he studied law at night school, was not admitted...
...sides to international questions, that war judgments are distorted by passion. Many professors here look back with shame to the time when the war fever lay so heavily upon them that they denied the commonest civilities to their former German friends on the campus. A monument to remind us of the changed light in which we saw the German people a decade after the war might help to prevent a repetition of such bitterness. Whenever the war fever threatens again, the name of Hans Wagner standing proudly on our War Memorial may make us think twice before hating and fighting...
Like the Good Queen, Topsy would be hopelessly muffled if she could not underline, but she is not otherwise Victorian. An example of her style may remind you of Anita's Loos's famed blonde, but Topsy's fooling is not so sharp. "Only my dear don't think I don't utterly adore Americans because I merely do, and of course Haddock knows some perfectly blossomy ones, but that's the staggering thing about them, my dear you meet them in London and they seem quite lambs and then they go home to America and gun at each other...
...simply has the swashbuckling Barrington ancestors flit among their haughty descendants in the ancient house on the banks of the Hudson. It develops that the democratic daughter of the modern Barringtons wants to marry a poor but honest young man. She is thwarted, however, by her prideful parents who remind her of the duty she owes the memory of her sainted forebears. In the meantime, the forebears are busy stealing, seducing, murdering one another right under the modern Barringtons' noses. Finally, not one but two grisly skeletons are discovered in a hidden family closet, the elder Barringtons are crestfallen...