Word: statesmen
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...Tokyo, the spirits of 122 royal predecessors blessed the marriage of Pr.nce Regent Hirohito to Princess Nagako, solemnized according to Shinto rites. It was the consummation of a love match, much opposed by the Elder Statesmen...
Something has happened to the work of our great sculptor. He always had the knack or the genius of catching likenesses?e.g., in busts of mighty soldiers and statesmen 'during the War and when he was at the Peace Conference. Now he is doing busts far beyond mere "war documents." He is catching personality, catching beauty...
...Harry Lauder at the Harvard Union yesterday afternoon spoke on a subject that hundreds of men--warriors, statesmen, orators and authors--have touched on before. But he brought to his subject the pathos and the humor which are a part of his own make up, and this time the pathos was heightened by contrast with the humor. He spoke on relations personal and international...
...Harry touched on a wide variety of subjects, always in the same characteristic manner. "Education and common sense; they are the same, and the world needs educated men now. The world has been run too long by politicians; we want statesmen today, men who will lean on the breast of truth and listen to its heart beat...
There is one noted philosopher, however, who has seen golf in its true light, and recognized its importance in retarding the affairs of the world. Mr. George Bernard Shaw recognized in the golfing propensities of statesmen an unmistakable sign of the immaturity of mankind. Seventy years, he says, are barely long enough to outgrow the childish pastimes of games and frivolities. In order for man to become sufficiently mature to solve intelligently the problems of civilization he must increase his span of life; he must finally outgrow golf and all of the meaningless trifling that it represents...