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...Paris, one Harold E. Stearns, editor of the Criterion, author of Civilization in the United States, spoke of Author Sinclair Lewis. Said he: "Cad. . . bounder. . . tightwad. . . dumbbell." Irritated by an article in the American Mercury in which Author Lewis referred to him as "father and seer of the Cafe Dôme, who is an authority on living without laboring and who bases his opinions of people's intellectual capacity on the amount of money he can borrow from them," Editor Stearns continued...
...hale of glory about his head, a scroll of parchment in his hand. In the days of ancient Greece a youth with such a dream would have consulted the Delphio oracle to learn the meaning of the strange, portentous words the scroll contained. Today the Freshman needs no seer or prophet. The scroll is blank, for he himself shall write the words that give it meaning. That vague desire for greatness which seems to whisper of some latent genius; is as yet an unharnessed, a random, undirected urge. The great problem of every young man is to find himself...
...grunting to get in and hear. Lady Doyle took the platform, expostulated, when over the stage came a bursting-party of rowdies, who jostled her rudely and tore down the draperies. Cane and papers in hand, Sir Arthur prepared to flee. Peace returned, however, and the famed ghost-seer was enabled to second everything that Mrs. Cadwallader had said...
...Eighty Club (of Asqutihian Liberals), Lord Oxford (former Premier H. H. Asquith) and ex-Premier George swore eternal peace. The Mr. Asquith said the Mr. George was a seer and a gladiator, possessed of unfailing sympathy for the common people. Mr. George referred to the "characteristic warm and generous tribute" of his chief. Apparently there is now no rift in the Liberal lute. Differences had arisen concerning the Party's leadership when Mr. Asquith was elevated to the peerage. As Lord Oxford, he retains the Liberal leadership...
...Leon may be real after all, and a mere stop in a larger scheme. Daedalus and learus were myths until the Wright brothers clothed them in fact. And Julos Verne in his day was thought a spinner of idle fancies. Who knows but Karel Capek may prove a seer, and President Lowell realize his dream of "synthetic Freshmen...