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...political honesty," the personal character of Feng is usually considered exemplary in the extreme, considering the marked proclivity of most Chinese chieftains for dissolute living. He is a total abstainer, a nonsmoker, and a vigorous combatant of loose sexual living among his troops. In his attire, "he affects the simplest and most austere garb." And it has often been reported that "he labors manually with his soldiers for a time every...
...purpose of this conference, outlined under a redundant series of headings, is vague and expansive. Reduced to simplest form, it constitutes an attempt to regain for the many branches of the Church a common, definite ethic. The international committee is composed of four groups: for the Protestant churches of Europe, for the Eastern Orthodox churches, for the British Commonwealth of Nations, for the U. S. Present at its sessions are such famed churchmen as: Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn, Dr. Arthur J. Brown of Manhattan, the Bishop of Winchester, the Metropolitan of Sofia, the Metropolitan of Thyateria...
...theory of war; he has clarified what has long been known. But this is a service which is important and of which the subject has long stood in need. For a book that is semitechnical and semihistorical, it is a marvellous piece of lucid writing in the simplest of language...
Here is a play crowded with entertainment value in the simplest sense of the word--a little of vaudeville in the scattered character of its events, very much of musical comedy in its rich welding of sentiment and gaiety. I am not sure that "The Moon Is a Gong" is a great play. But there can be no question that the production given it last night by the Harvard Dramatic Club under the direction of Mr. Edward Massey is extraordinarily memorable and stirring. Mr. Massey has approached this difficult production frankly from the point of view of musical comedy...
...Wild Geese,* if you will recall your history. Irishmen then settled in Spain and France and Austria, and some of them became great soldiers, and their descendants, genealogically at least, we consider Irish. "It might be one of these whom we would invite to be King; but the simplest way would be a dual monarchy rather than have some one whom we don't know and who doesn't know anything about us and who would in reality be an expatriate." Then, said he of: Republicans. "Nearly half the elected membership of the Dail is Republican. Of about...