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...works, and more significant remarks of "Red" Grange, who recently taught Pennsylvania some of the finer points of open field running. One extract will do to show the poignant lyricism with which Mr. Grange has inspired his biographer: "The poetry of the looming hills was gone, but in its stead there came a wider outlook across the wide plains of Illinois," writes Mr. Braden, smiling mistily through the tears that have been wrung from him by the narration of how the Grange family moved west...
Only slight, however, was the Presidential disappointment. For in Her Majesty's stead he saw a flawless, exquisitely cut diamond, sparkling with a transparent, sky-blue light, hitherto unknown in precious stones. Weighing 136 carats, it is the largest cut diamond in the world, and its name is "Queen of Holland...
Prince Gelasio Caetani, onetime Italian Ambassador to the U. S., was nominated by Premier Mussolini to be President of the Italian Red Cross in the stead of il Senatore Circalo, who resigned after the completion of his second term of office...
...have tried these gorgeous white elephants, but always with the same result. My handkerchief is somewhat small for a towel and I should like to recommend that these machines be turned over in Margery wherewith in frighten visitors to her seances, and some plebeian towels be substituted in their stead. Gurdon S. Howe...
India's thirst for knowledge needs immediate attention. Educated Hindus are eager to read the literary contributions of the democratic Americans, and would ever stand indebted to the United States if any educators or educational organizations will sponsor this cause of exporting American literature to India in the stead of religious teachers. The latter can find plenty of work in the--Christendom it they have a message and the ability to deliver it effectively...