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...Equity Association and the theatrical managers, and concerned for fear the poor author would fall in ruins between them: Here, too, Jesse Lynch Williams, a compiler of Why Not? and Why Marry? Clayton Hamilton, rescued from Hollywood and the motion pictures but apparently still interested in them; Robert Stead, President of the Canadian Authors' Association; William Rose Benet, planning, doubtless, to put poetry into the movies, and so on and so on. Of the speeches I heard I liked best the statement of Archbishop Hayes, read by Father Kelly of the Catholic Writers' Guild. Here, too, was Elmer...
...obscured by time and by the many puzzles presented by her career. The divine Sarah represented the highest achievement in emotional act ing. She was handicapped with an appearance which, while preserving its youth with phenomenal tenacity, was never strictly beautiful. Her art was not one of interpretation. In stead of losing herself in a charac ter - Camille, for example - she used it simply as a mold in which to pour her own glowing vitality. She was born 78 years ago. Her father was French, her mother of mixed Dutch and Jewish origin. Her first great triumph came...
They proceeded to project Senator Moses as the leader of the irreconcilable group which despaired of re-electing President Harding and wanted, therefore, to nominate Senator Johnson of California in his stead. "Both Johnson and Moses are going to Europe," says a statement issued by the National Democratic Committee, "in quest of ammunition to fire at Mr. Harding and his proposition with respect to American participation in the International Court. Confident that only an irreconcilable and a confirmed isolationist can win the next election, Senator Moses and his associates wish to settle the issue within the party before the nomination...
...would be at their mercy. So the Government broke their power, dissolved the great pools and combinations, hedged the railroad business about with a complex set of rules and regulations, and held the Sherman Act like a gun at their backs. The threat of autocracy vanished, but in its stead came a progressive loss of efficiency and a growing condition of inadequate transportation which reached a crisis during the war when the Government had to take over the roads to insure the movement of troops and supplies...
...inconvenience of uprooting a firmly established "system" and installing a new one in its stead, that causes the difficulty. In British Columbia with the change from left to right it has been found necessary to set up new sign-posts over three thousand miles of road, and the introduction of the meter to America would cause a great many minor changes.--but like Arabic numerals, the metric system is sure to be universally accepted sooner or later...