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...Mexico's varied groups as his initiation into the mosaic racial pattern of Southwestern culture. "Through his sympathy with the things created, he came into touch with the things experienced." These experiencings, reaching him first by native word-of-mouth, he gracefully transcribes in full-flavored variety. A specimen...
...addition to the African Room, is exceptionally good specimen of an African wart hog. The collection in the South American Room has been augmented by the acquisition of two new animals. One of these the Blackmaned Red Wolf is a very rare species inhabiting South America, or more exactly Uraguay, where this was captured. The other is a Capybrara, another rare animal found in South America and the largest existing member of the rodent family...
Outside Congress: With his wife he lives in an old house on East Capitol Street. He entertains little, shuns society, keeps no car. Once he was taken up and lionized by Washington hostesses as a strange political specimen but when they found he did not roar loud enough for a third-party man they cooled toward him. One of his closest personal friends is Editor Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson of the Washington Herald. Indulging in none of the usual amusements of Senators he leads a solitary intellectual life befitting his unique political status...
...himself, as his opponents love to call him. Writing with such style and pith that even runners may read and understand, he has here collected "the croakings of twelve years." Most of his earnest persuasions, that persuaded few people at the time, have turned out to be dismal prophecies. Specimen (1921): "The unwillingness of American investors to buy European bonds is based on common sense...
...relaxed and then while he is in the heat of competition, it was learned yesterday. The corpuscular composition of the blood is believed to undergo some slight transformation under muscular and emotional stress and the medical authorities are trying to ascertain this change with Wood as the specimen. Wood has submitted to these blood tests after the football games this fall and now is giving samples of his blood after the hockey tilts...