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...make a gamble of this sort requires a rare type of courage and ability. It is much easier to follow the charted ways of nationalism than it is to face the unknown paths of internationalism. Tragically the charted path has been followed before and it has always led to the same unfortunate destination. Tuesday the American Senate refused the gamble...
Repentance. In Philadelphia, an unknown thief crept to Mrs. Joseph Martin's house, tied her $125 cameo locket, stolen eight years ago, to the doorknob with an unsigned explanatory note: "I'm sorry...
...each . . , but in the last century they could all be lumped together as Tales of Mystery and Imagination." Along with The Woman in White in Editor Richardson's omnibus are Robert Louis Stevenson's* famed Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Notting Hill Mystery, written by an unknown disciple of Wilkie Collins, and J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, in which a deadly vampire lady passes her days snugly in a blood-filled coffin, her nights with her pearly-white incisors sunk gently into a sleeping victim's throat...
Falling Forelock. Republicans were bitterly regretting their overconfidence of last November, when they figured that they could win with anybody. Governor Dwight Green had thereupon picked a nobody-a political unknown, Russell W. Root. A big, bumbling bear of a man notable only for his party loyalty, his amiability, and his political ritualism ("I'll go along"), Root's undistinguished career as lawyer and minor public servant did not stand up well under comparison with Kennelly...
...Rubaiyat caught on quickly. But its translator still remained unknown. Harvard's Charles Eliot Norton, who introduced this Rubaiyat to the U.S., showed it to crusty Historian Thomas Carlyle, remarking that it was rumored to be the work of a "Rev. Edward FitzGerald, who lived somewhere in Norfolk and spent much time in his boat." Cried Carlyle: "Why, he's no more Reverend than I am! He's a very old friend of mine . . . and [he] might have spent his time to much better purpose than in busying himself with the verses of that old Mohammedan blackguard...