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...elected last Fall. He has degrees from the Peru (Neb.) Normal School, the Union Biblical Seminary, Oskaloosa College, Omaha University, Leander Clark College. He has been a teacher, a United Brethren Minister, a college President and since 1919 a Congressman. He is President of the Lever Lock Rim Co., a Common Law trust company of Colorado, capitalized for $500,000 in shares of one dollar each. Last week he almost got into trouble...
...libretto of the opera, Carmen, has been regarded for a long time as one of the best. It is, indeed, coherent and dramatic, and far better than most operatic libretti, But it must be said that it cheapens in many places the magnificent story by Mérim...
Since the days of the Mediferranean "world" when it was no unusual occurrence, as Pliny indicates, to have envoys returned from Parthia or some other district on the outer rim, without their tongues ambassadors have enjoyed an unenviable reputation. Today it is no longer customary to cut out tongues, under ordinary circumstances; but the Ricei-Watson incident of last week, officially termed "closed" yesterday, shows how difficult it is for an ambassador to do his diplomatic balancing act without drawing down hostile criticism. He either says too much or too little, and whatever he says is twisted to mean anything...
...others literally died of broken hearts because of the hopelessness of their cause. Stubbornness, born of an innate intellectual complacency, is one of the hall-marks of the typical college professor, and it takes a mighty jolt to wake him into a state where he can see beyond the rim of his text books...
...beautiful prince had come riding to her rescue out of the far north, had slain the wicked ogre and had borne away the princess to a happy, if thoroughly respectable, wedding. She raised her telescope once more. And once more a rescue came speeding into view upon the rim of the farthest horizon and once more he turned and field as he caught sight of the wicked ogre. She wondered if the world had grown too old for fairy tales...