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Through the quiet air of central Ohio, a Presidential salute banged out last week, followed by the long-drawn bugle notes of "Taps". Citizens of Marion, Ohio, stood with bared heads around a $500,000 marble tomb, "Marion's beauty spot and Ohio's shrine." They were reburying their fellow-townsman, Warren Gamaliel Harding and Florence Kling Harding, his wife...
...American college environment is the shrine of mob worship of molded standards. Its heroes are individuals who are still of the campus. Its inflexible axiom lets those who deviate suffer in the pillory of mob spite. In such an atmosphere confirmed anglophiles are only pitiful...
...begins with the miracle of the pool by which a shepherdess is made whole by looking at a vision of the Virgin Mary, whom, if the shepherdess had known her Hollywood, she would have recognized as Mary Pickford, America's sweetheart. A city grows up around the shrine of the pool. Hearing of the wealth which grateful recipients of its healing power have laid at the feet of the shepherdess (now the priestess of the shrine), El Gaucho rides toward it through imaginary Andes, as steep and beautiful as the mountains of the moon. On the way he stops...
...Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, there is no room in the Abbey for memorials to future eminent dead. Said the Archbishop: "The time has now come when the nation must decide whether or not Westminster Abbey is to retain the place it has held for centuries as the shrine of the nations memorials to great men and women. Delay in making this decision is no longer possible...
...employes* were weaving spells for gratified Chicago audiences and the first road company? was about to open in Hanover, N. H., to a rapt gathering of Dartmouth undergraduates, the Guild raised its Manhattan curtain on a troupe of Negroes. Meeting the ceaseless mutter that the Guild worships at the shrine of foreign playwriting, the first selection went completely native. It is set at Charleston's docks, written in Negro patois, deals with purely Negro problems (as opposed to most plays and books about Negroes, which struggle with race prejudice and intermarriage), is played almost wholly by a company colored without...