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...Franklin's age when he wrote Poor Richard's Almanack. Buskin and Roosevelt were 24 when they composed, respectively, Modern Painters and The War of 1812. John Jay was Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court at 44. Charles James Fox was a junior lord of admiralty, a thorn in George Ill's side, at 21. William Pitt, Britain's prime minister for 17 years, assumed office at 24, having previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. At 20, Alexander Hamilton was a leading authority on government; at 24, conceived the National Bank. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration...
...purpose this week to speak in superlatives of the cast. They played soundly and steadily through their parts, but they were always in the shadow of madame. The authors had probably willed it so. We should like to mention Mr. Thorn for his excellent bit as madame's chef, gesticulating, grimacing, and rushing foolishly about the stage in the immemorial way of Frenchmen. He was the perfectly fantastic foreigner, thinking orange blossoms and truffles, operas and endives. Peg Entwhistle deserves commendation also, for although she was forced to act the sweet young thing, she came nearer looking the part than...
...been weak in this department of the game and unless the defence has improved William and Mary may score. The Indians, as the visitors are called, possess in their Japanese quarterback, Matsu, a brilliant passer whose tosses scared Annapolis a month ago and who may prove a real thorn in the side of the University eleven today...
Then twenty-one years ago, I came to America. He went to England. Ever since he's been the family thorn, taking the side of every tatterdemalion, every underdog in England...
...Dyck bearded, ever sleekly habited, groomed with care, Walter L. Cohen, Negro Customs Comptroller and Sheriff of New Orleans, has long been a well rewarded servitor of the Republican party in Louisiana and a thorn in the flesh of Louisiana senators...