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...present, each person who is saved today from the ravages of consumption and pneumonia is one more to serve tomorrow as a target for gas waves and poison bombs. Destruction has always been a much more interesting pastime than mere beneficial prevention. This is proved by the popular renown of such geniuses as Attila, Nero, and Guy Fawkes, about whom every student of history reads with a secret feeling of fellowship. On the other hand very few could tell offhand the accomplishments of Laennec, Koch, or Takamine...
...keeping singers sternly under discipline. The singers at the Metropolitan, like most singers, loved discipline not at alL They knitted their brows and waited. The new manager stipulated in his contract that he would bring with him Arturo Toscanini, then already famous. This orchestra conductor enjoyed a well earned renown for handling singers without gloves...
Courtesy to a lady of renown...
...young. From college she migrated to Greenwich Village. The contrast between Washington Square and her home town of Rockland, Me., was great; but it did not disconcert her. She soon became a legend. Her poetry was widely read, her charms widely heralded. She was a poet of renown and even more brilliant as a personality. Tiring soon, however, of the Bohemian life of the Village she went to Europe with her mother. There she stayed, as a part of the American colony in Paris; then, for a time, in England. This Spring she again sought America. When...
...that profanity is no sign of intelligence. How true that is! Those who argue for "strong language" show either their ignorance of or heedlessness to many things. Most certainly they do not know or do not reverence the Bible. They do not perceive that the last way to gain renown is by using bad language. In the third place the "strong language" been do not realize how detrimental is the effect of their unseemly mode of speech not only upon their moral standards but also upon their power to express themselves clearly and forcefully. They also do not appreciate...