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...inauguration, his nomination of President Benjamin Harrison. An annual event was his report to the Union League Club, in Manhattan, on his summers in Europe. At the Republican National Convention in 1916, Senator Harding called on him unexpectedly during a lull in the proceedings. Aged 82, he extemporaneously spellbound the hall for 45 minutes. Four years later he repeated the feat...
...shouldered aside by a burly, blatant, sideshow barker from the city, whose ambition is not to sit in the chair himself but to call the crowd, direct the act and lead the ballyhoo. Mr. Lowden's enemy of old, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, has spellbound the bystanders and gained mastery of Illinois, and perhaps a lot more Lowden territory, by an opportunism from which gentlemanliness is omitted with a frank grin. Nor is the Thompson grin as foolish as it looks...
Came the army to Windsor, but King George was not in his castle, neither was Queen Mary. But the stately royal pile, begun by William the Conqueror, held them spellbound as they paused to gaze at it. And even after the order to march had been given necks were craned to take just one last look...
...Spellbound. Imagination, seed of woe, flowers into tragedy or pathos, according to the ground it falls on. In Spellbound, it has fallen on a London shopgirl. A pathetic play is the result. Yet so artfully is this pathos accented by Actress Pauline Lord, whose specialty has long been the anguish of the inarticulate, that the play's weakness is concealed. There are moments in Spellbound when Miss Lord crosses the high road of true tragedy and makes Ethel Underwood at least a half-sister to all whose dreams have led them lost...
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