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UNITY?J, D. Beresford?Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). Katherine was a poet; Louise was adept at watercolor painting; Emily played the violin. Katherine Louise Emily Willoughby had to reconcile the talents, passions, ambitions of these people. So she adopted the accurate sobriquet, Unity, and spent her life trying to make it fit. She married a man, Brian Jessup, who went in swimming drunk, at midnight, in Sidney, Australia. She married an automaton, Michael Lord Mowbray, of whom she felt she was unworthy because he could not understand her. But only Adrian Gore, the man with the grey eyes, could give...
Died. Frank Chance, 47, Bayard of the baseball diamond; in Los Angeles. As a player, he batted .327, stole 404 bases; as a manager, his tact and magnetism won him a sobriquet from the press: "The Peerless Leader." Four times he led the Chicago Cubs to victory in the National League; twice won the World's Series. Later, he managed none too successfully the New York Yankees, the Boston Red Sox. Last spring, he was scheduled to manage the Chicago White Sox, but retired because of illness, leaving the task to his faithful lieutenant, Johnny Evers...
...growing up "study free." Napoleon looms out with a colossal capacity for mental vacuity, and the moral is obvious; set a lazy man to catch a dullard. Wellington was notoriously lazy. Blucher, by some mysterious prefiguration, early showed signs of his later forte by earning for himself the sobriquet of the "last-place pupil".--Waterloo was to see him starring in his old position, with Wellington showing that laziness is superior to mere lack of education, such as Napoleon's. These Germans, in invading the scientific world, find further that Darwin neglected his three R's shamefully...
...speak on anything at any time with logic and eloquence. As a satirical speaker, Lord Birkenhead is probably unequaled in the world and few men have been able to face his onslaught with equanimity. In his early political days he was known as "Galloper Smith." He earned this sobriquet while acting as lieutenant to the then Sir Edward Carson, whom he supported in fighting the "Home Rulers." After having supported Ulster he somewhat callously deserted the Unionist cause after the War and was one of the prime movers in effecting the present settlement of the vexatious Irish question. For this...
...irascible temperament obtained for him the sobriquet of " the American Prince of Wales." He said that "America is no place for a lady or gentleman to live in." Asked if he had ever been West, he remarked, "Yes, as far as Sixth Avenue." An African hunt in a steam automobile; a lawsuit for alienating the affections of another man's wife; an escapade during the War; landing in the U. S. with 50 trunks which took him three hours and $1,400 to get by the Customs Officials; a passport seizure by the American Consul in Paris; the importation...