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...August, did not walk to its work or play. The carmen adopted a resolution of thanks to Editor Ballard for "injecting" himself into their affairs. It was most unusual for a 20th century editor, in a big city, to do such a thing-to descend from his rostrum, divested of the editorial "we" and its ulterior formality. Most big-city editors would have "played" the streetcar strike to sell their papers, or simply viewed it in irritated detachment with no thought but that every one concerned must "stew in his own juice." The editors of the New York Times...
...evidence points to its converse. Artificial flowers last longest." Thus, some years ago, wrote a critic. Last week his view was given singular proof in a London auction room. The scene was Christie's. An elegant company, in satins and swallowtails, lounged before the auctioneer's rostrum, watching some gentlemen talk with their fingers. They talked in an ancient language, for they were dealer's agents, and their nodding heads, their twitching forefingers, indicated bids of a thousand, of ten thousand pounds. When a little picture on the scaffold (George Romney's portrait of Mrs. Davenport...
With a loud rumbling whirling between their ears, last Sunday 63 humble faithfuls groped to the pulpit where Revivalist Norris campaigned for converts. Dr. Norris leaped to the floor from his rostrum and embraced them. (On the Sunday following his killing of Mr. Chipps he salvaged only five). Dr. Norris prefaced his sermon with an appeal for funds to aid in fighting his case. Members showered over $25,000 upon the man who slew, he said, in self defense. Dr. Norris is as unswervable as the flood of Genesis in his self defense plea, announcing that "here...
Later, Jane Addams again took the rostrum, greying, spare and benign in her 66th year. Her penetrating low voice filled the hall with quiet reminiscence. She made no comment on a remark by President Vaile to the effect that the day of organization has succeeded the day of leadership in social work-the day of Jane Addams, Mary Richmond,* Owen R. Lovejoy**?but did say: "It is curious to notice the difference in world opinion 50 years ago and now. When I first went to Europe people everywhere were interested in the United States. They thought of America...
...need to. But neither need he care to associate his sacred and deified conceptions with the cheapness revealed by the California clergyman. Taste may not be essential in the forum or on the market place. It is certainly essential in the pulpit of a modern church or on the rostrum of a modern church convention...