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Government must rest on the consent of the governed. This rule, of course, does not apply to aliens, Negroes, Filipinos or inhabitants of the District of Columbia. The consent of the governed is a synonym for the will of the majority, and the will of the majority is expressed by a plurality of those who take the trouble to vote. ...Taking our state and municipal elections, and averaging them for the country as a whole, the figures show that the will of the people is regularly expressed by less than twenty per cent of our adult citizenship, or about...
...Subscriber Smith consult his Webster's Unabridged. "Infuscate" means "darkened with a brownish tinge"; was employed as a synonym for "nigger," "Negro," "blackamoor"; has no reference to intoxication...
...James the Less, Henry VIII built a palace, which he inhabited with Anne Boleyn until he tired of both. With the burning of the great Palace of Whitehall, the sovereigns of England from William III to George IV maintained there the Court of St. James's, still a synonym for the Court of Britain. There Charles I slept out the night before his execution; there the ill-starred Marie de Medici, Queen of Henry IV of France, found a refuge; there George III was attacked by a mad woman. In 1736 a wing was added for Frederick, Prince...
Artists and Models is a saturnalia that grows, each year, bigger, better, barer. This one is called the Paris Edition because the name Paris is, with Broadwayites, a synonym for limbs and confidential badinage. The badinage in this show, however, achieves wit; the lace is never where it is expected; and the limbs, particularly those of the Gertrude Hoffman girls, late of the Moulin Rouge, are exquisite, adept. Authors Harold Atteridge and Harry Wabstaff Gribble do not depend on the upholstery to make their lines agreeable; the art directing and music decidedly the most able that those penetrating students...
They saw in his pictures the work of one who, having inherited by birth a robust spirit, acquired by industry a technic, has seen no reason to believe that restraint is a healthier quality than courage, that tone is a better word than color, or that sublety is a synonym for strength. "A picture," said the cold ones, "should be judged according to the terms of its own formula. Though his canvases, vehemently composed, daringly colored, win praise from people who might damn a better picture because it was subtle, restrained, they are not the less good art. A capable...