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Troublesome to presidents, party lines, and the general public, the United States Senate, nevertheless, has a history which is glamorous even if staid. Under the somewhat affectionate pen of Edward G. Lowry writing in the February "Century", its romance assumes a splendor too alluring to be lost. For, although truckling at times to corporate interest and again to more varied sectional economic wishes, the Senate has prized beyond all intrigue its independence...
...these were mingled in a single rhapsody too great for the hand of mortal man, it would not equal the majesty and the splendor of old 'Suwanee River' played on the ukulele and hummed by the bright-eyed Florida maidens underneath the new magnolia trees, with the soothing odor gushing forth in a blazing November moonlight...
...each other's neck. After some exceedingly interesting internal conflict the wife decides that she is not so tired as she thought. The husband wakes up with equal abruptness and peace is made. The opera singer-much the wisest and most worthy figure-is left in somewhat lonely splendor...
...surprisingly unique. Never before has a royal diadem of Egypt been unearthed. And even the minor trappings of the royal person have hitherto been scarcely above ground. The reason is that previously discovered mummies have been stripped by thieves before the savants got at them. Every yield of ancient splendor laughs ironically at Egypt's squalorous fellaheen of today...
...attempt to put our finger on it. It is like the moon on a mackerel-sky with the white clouds rushing over it, now hiding it completely, now showing it to us through a transparent wraith-like veil, now and then revealing it to us in its full opalescent splendor. The keynote of unworldliness, of "transcendental buffoonery" as Schlezel called it, is struck in the very opening of the first act and is sustained throughout the play. With much subtlety and with a whimsical humor not generally associated with the Russian drama in the mind of the average English-speaking...