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...Government is assured of a large working majority over the Republicans, who are embarrassed by the fact that it will be necessary for them to swear allegiance to George V before taking their seats...
...Duchesse d'Uzes, handsome, white-haired, expert huntswoman, ardent Royalist, is the first woman to hold the position of Lieutenant des Loups (Lieutenant of Wolves). Told by M. Chéron, Minister of Agriculture, that if she 'accepted the honor she would have to swear allegiance to the Trench Republic, the Duchess extended her hand...
...that as it may, anyone who noted the bulging entrances and carefully packed stairways of the Paine Concert Hall, night before last, is ready to swear that the appreciation of the fine arts is not confined to the indeterminate outside public or the students of Music 4. The day when Beethoven and Schumann are preferred to Irving Berlin, when the ethereal troops of fantastic actors become more real in their symphonic exits and entrances than those of the Music Box Revue,--but no, there is a limit even to predictions...
...simple matter to raise the cry of "crime wave!" A murder story on the front page of a morning paper becomes an especially desperate and cold-blooded affair. The private citizen, who knows little about the matter, is ready to swear that the country is suddenly engulfed in crime. As a matter of fact there has always been excessive crime in the United States; the wave in a thing of permanency. New York in 1915 had 838 robberies, enough to supply over two sensations a day under 1921 publicity. Chicago had twenty more murders in 1916, New York almost double...
...considered the first writer of his time with the exception of Voltaire. He came into Danish literature at a time when it was said, "a man wrote Latin to his friends, talked French to the ladies, and called his dogs in German, and only used Danish to swear at his servants." Before his death he had established a theatre, supplied it with comedies, and contributed masterpieces of poetry, and essays. His plays are of universal interest due to his extensive travels. It was while he was a student at Oxford that he first conceived the idea "how splendid it would...