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Hand Salutes. The ending of the all-important parley, held in order to fix the terms upon which the Experts' Plan is to be operated, was no milk and water affair. Statesmen puffed out their chests, sighed with relief; then a highly dramatic incident recharged the air with electrical emotion. The delegates had signed the final protocol of the agreement and were somewhat sheepishly regarding one another with a "that's that" expression on their faces, when Premier MacDonald started the electricity by shaking hands all round. The paw of Chancellor Marx he held long and earnestly...
...good ship San Giorgio, pennants a flutter, hove to in the magnificently festooned harbor of Buenos-Aires. Guns boomed a welcoming salute. On the dock were the President of Argentina, his suite, hosts of Cabinet Ministers, statesmen and politicians, le Corps Diplomatique, numberless other dignitaries, all supported by a crowd estimated in hundreds of thousands. Italy's Crown Prince had come to pay an official visit to Argentina...
Women's barber shops call themselves beauty parlors. Drug stores call themselves ice cream parlors. Clerks call themselves salesmen. Politicians call themselves statesmen. Flappers call themselves young ladies. But scientists call themselves scientists, and only newspapers call them savants...
...befits the world's most eminent democrat, M. Clemenceau lives sim- ply. We lunched and dined in the kitchen. He is at peace with mankind. His soul and heart know no rancor. He is attending to his garden, as all great statesmen of France do when their public service is ended...
Publishers have always been the friends of Presidents and Presidential nominees. Consider such publishers as lately have been the friends of statesmen−Colonel George Harvey−Edward Beale McLean. Not such a one is Charles Dana Gibson. In the first place Life differs in the seriousness of its pretentions from the North American Review and The Washington Post. Not that Life is out of politics, because it presumes to smile at it. Life knows politics and takes part in it. Life has played its part in many fields. The least of these may be anti-vivisectionism, the greatest...