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...likewise with her envoy in Washington, was followed, within one and four days respectively, by official announcement of the summons of Hugh R. Wilson from Berlin and of Hans H. Dieckhoff from Washington. It was an auspicious occasion on which to celebrate Greenwich Time'?, first birth day. Seer Williams is now betting on a world war within a year, foresees the removal of the British Empire's capital to Ottawa...
...action, thus creating abnormal market conditions. . . ." Same week that this tempered but widely publicized kick issued from the Exchange, stock prices, having climbed back to 190, again turned down in the beginning of the worst crash since 1929. As the toboggan gathered momentum, President Gay began to seem a seer and SEC was on the spot. SEC chairman then was amiable James McCauley Landis, who was so busy retiring to become dean of Harvard Law School that he scarcely bothered to reply to Broker...
...makes an arresting picture-one that French, Roman Catholic Dr. Carrel is romantic and mystic enough to appreciate - two men, one an ageless seer, the other a young and devoted inventor, sitting on two rocks in the middle of a sea, talking, planning ways to prolong the life and end the ills of mankind...
Last week Mrs. Esther Shephard (Paul Bunyan) advanced a new theory to account for Whitman's change. She says that he read George Sand's The Countess of Rudolstadt. The epilogue of that typical romantic novel tells of a seer who dressed in humble clothing, preached the doctrine of man and in his inspired discourse composed "the most magnificent poem that can be conceived." Deciding to do the same thing in Brooklyn, says Mrs. Shephard, Walt spent the rest of his life "imitating, in his dress and utterance, a character in a French work of fiction...
...chief hitch after combining its hair and washing it behind the ears," said Stone, who had absolute power over the city for four years, was in getting the inhabitants to become tourist conscious and in making them aware of the historical interest which the place has for the sight-seer...