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Rotarians were hit with snowballs. Rotarians threw snowballs. The snow came in box cars from the virgin peaks of Colorado; bathing beauties, cops, were pelted in the streets of Cleveland, warm with July sunlight; the Rotarians loosed their inhibitions by throwing it around. More inhibitions were launched in a song...
...locomoted about Europe. From the shade of his conveyance (it might have been from the window of his hotel or, again, a hyper-metropical vision from the U. S.), he lazily and laconically wrote to The New York World "on the general state of everything" in Europe: "Artificial sunlight aids the health of London's Zoo monkeys. Fatal accidents from unexploded shells still continue in the French war zone. Mountains of American autos, boxed, too vast to house, clutter the Thames banks; new tariff rate July 1. The top hat, bashed by the War, is dusted off and blocked...
...bridges, windless leaves enchanting a forest avenue. He paints on a toned canvas with a short stroke, a small brush. Shining spots of canvas show through the paint. Notable is his portrait of a girl in blue mending her underwear out-of-doors in the ripple and shadow of sunlight and uneasy willow branches. Yet for all this iridescent preciosity, there is solidity of grouping, vigorous draughtmanship, broad effects of mass...
Venice also has its charm for him. "You must arrive in Venice in the right mood, and at the right time of day, if you would fully appreciate her beauty," he explained. "In the sunlight she gives herself away light a worn, haggard old woman. The time to arrive in Venice is when the moon diffuses her mellow light over the city. To enjoy Venice best, one should take a gondola and be propelled slowly through the narrow canals. Don't take one of those motor driven gondolas, reported to be coming into use. If they are not done away...
...missionary enterprise are frank to say in effect: "Better one Chinaman or Jap than fifty Islanders." And working-over the figures as a whole, missionary generals reflect that their banners wave more brightly over dusky people with a low order of indigenous culture than they do in the ancient sunlight of ancient civilizations...