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...Linden have given more lives to balance the figures of statisticians, but all that he had, he gave, their boosters have sold their souls for their cities, but here is the first man worthy of beatification. The people of Los Angeles will cry that he was bribed shamefully to smirch their reputation, but that is an attitude of cavilling envy. And, indeed, as long as there remains exalted ideas to which a man may consecrate his very life, the charge that modern materialism makes existence crass will thus be nullified...
...Manhattan has for many years boasted of its exemption from any jury system of selection of exhibits. If an artist so desires, he can hang himself in the place allotted him. It is completely free from censorship. Everything offered is exhibited. This record is stained by but one smirch: a year ago a painter succeeded in executing a work which the Society felt it was unable to present...
...House is asked to do," said Representative Graham, "and all it is bound to do is to say in effect to Judge English: 'Here are things which smirch your ermine. Stand up, sir, in the Senate, face these accusations and if you are innocent, God send a deliverance...
...Things Which Smirch. The House impeaches; the Senate tries. The House does not declare an official guilty, but it does declare that it looks as if he might have been guilty of misconduct. Typical of the things which smirch the character of Judge English, as they were brought forth by Congressmen...
...University quintet will play its third game of the week at 8 o'clock this evening when the Massachusetts Agricultural College five will seek to smirch the Crimson's record with its second black mark of the season...