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...lead a life beleaguered with lonely effort, desolated with efficiency? Was it this terror, also, that bred in him such a pity for men that his instant reaction to an outrageous crime was sorrow for the criminals? Various comments to some such effect were; made by his friends, but strangest of all was one supplied by an item printed in his paper just before his body exchanged its pleasant room on Lake Shore Drive for the suburban field where it will rest forever?an item that revealed something of the terrifying diversity, the proximities, the contrasts, of the human spectacle...
...even the blithest comedy, the sorriest tragedy, or the strangest history, there comes a time when the last line is spoken and the heavy curtain from above descends unalterably. So it was at Clean, Scotland, that Death came to Mary Elizabeth Haldane, nee Sanderson. She had celebrated her 100th birthday but recently (TIME, May 4, EDUCATION). She remembered the first steam engine and the first balloon. She remembered the days when children honied from school blackened and blued by the schoolmaster's rod. She had seen George V throned and Edward VII laid away. She had seen the great...
...apprehension of beauty, there are two apparently conflicting impulses : The first is recognition, as of a face suddenly rekindled in the memory, that makes the mind welcome her strangest comings as foreseen returns; the second is wonder, which sets men to question their own delight and to scrutinize that fabled face as a thing holy and remote. These tendencies follow no order of precedence. Now one, now the other, according to the temper of the times, prevails upon thought. The Italian artists before Giotto, borrowing the immaculate but dispassionate wonder of the Greeks, painted women whose faces were abstract...
...strangest hulks shipwright ever fashioned stood in the Camden, N. J., ways: It was about to be loosed into the water.* Lest it should race across the estuary and smash into Philadelphia, a gigantic cable was stretched across the water off the New Jersey shore. Twenty airplanes careened lazily from side to side, high in air above the hulk, as if welcoming a foster-mother...
...Lotta Crabiree, who died unmarried and childless with a private fortune of some $5,000,000 which she left to world war veterans, agricultural students, and other worthy groups. Since her death, the country has suddenly become populated with the relations: fourty-nine cousins, no less, a niece, and, strangest of all, a daughter. The latter, one Ida Blankenburg, was supposedly the offspring of a dim and juvenile marriage in far off Texas which nobody thought much about at the time, such things being quite customary. Evidently Miss. Blankenburg almost forgot the matter herself, what with steer raising...