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...destroy patriotism and reverence for our heroes is bad, to blast the happy counterfeits that throng the precious memory of childhood is still worse, but to remove the stock and stay of the Latin Quarter is unutterable. Art galleries, painters, dowager dilettantes, lily fingered aesthetes, all down in one cataclysmic head. It must...
...banners of the marching, milling throng appeared such strange devices...
...cheerful throng of $10,000-per-year men was converging last week upon Washington. After all had arrived safely they would take their 531 seats and answer to their 531 names as members of the 71st Congress, third session, sitting...
...unusually restless, talkative throng of members in the National Association of Audubon Societies filed into a large room at the American Museum of Natural History last week for their 26th annual meeting. Instead of telling each other about the last oriole they had seen or how their new wren-houses were working out, they whispered over the backs of their chairs like politicians. They all knew that the policies of their president, Thomas Gilbert Pearson, were to be challenged by a small group of discontented members who had charged him with too great a friendship for wealthy sportsmen, too little...
...furor which Ignace Jan Paderewski created in the musical world of 1890 heralded a great artist. Today he fulfills the traditional threescore years and ten of human life. This seventieth birthday of a great pianist is not bounded by reminiscence. Boston would still throng the concert hall to hear Paderewski play...