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...December, Mr. Bingham, according to Connecticut law, must take office as Senator within 20 days of his official notification (immediately following the official canvass on Dec. 30). He is expected to deliver his inaugural message as Governor on Jan. 7, enter his resignation within two weeks and assume the toga within the same period. Swift...
Italy is the classic land of dictators. To her long line of emperors and popes, to her commercial titans of Venice and Genoa, to her art masters of Florence and Rome, and to her indomitable Mussolini of contemporary fame, is now added another picker up of the discarded toga of Cincinnatus. All literary Europe is agog over Benedetto Croce who poses, and by many is accepted, as the Doctor Johnson of his day. Scholar, statesman, and philosopher, his most recent work in the field of literary criticism is an astonishing volume upon "European Literature of the Nineteenth Century...
Senate Faces. There were 33 Senators elected last week. Of these, 13 will make their first appearance in the purple toga when the 69th Congress assembles next year. The other 20 Senators were reelectees. There will be two other new faces, as yet undetermined, the successors chosen to the late Senator Brandegee of Connecticut and the late Senator Lodge of Massachusetts. Here are the changes...
...gravestones, but rose to fame and munificence as one of those who instituted the classical revival of Italian Art. He made statues of Palamedes, of Napoleon, of Hebe, of Hercules and also of George Washington. In his great style he modeled the founder of our country, in the flowing toga of a Roman Senator. Secure permission to have made, from this statue, a replica in the best Carrara marble. The State of North Carolina will pay the expense, and we, the Legislature of this Commonwealth, will place the replica on the steps of the State Capitol, where it will stand...
...Everett, who has the eye of a connoisseur, was not dismayed. He had seen the statue of which he was sent to get a reproduction. It was wrapped in a cumbrous toga. He could not help comparing it to a modern dressing-gown...