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Talk. It was during a monotonous discussion of architect's plans for the building of a new home for the League. French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand dozed, snored, awoke, fidgeted. Suddenly he sat upright, waved to German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann to follow him outside. Both statesmen arose. M. Briand annoyed the earnest delegates by knocking over a chair and received their concentrated glare for his clumsiness...
...rushed through the Dail without discussion, when his young, inexperienced henchmen were unaware of what was happening, and thus put a spoke in President Cosgrave's governmental wheels. And if in the Dail respected as an "enemy" of the government, he is almost loved in the lobbies. His upright character is a living reminder to the younger politicians of what can be accomplished by hard work, patience, modesty and moderation...
...waiting republic went the messages of the new prohibition chiefs. Commissioner Doran: "We want no lawless law enforcement." Assistant Secretary Lowman: "There are to be no vital changes in enforcement regulations. . . . We are going to cut out catching people by technicalities in the law. . . . Enforcement must be sensible and upright." It was all in the vernacular. A politer enforcement hangs fire...
...Reporter Kenneth Campbell's pocket Pastor Straton noted a copy of Bernarr Macfadden's tabloid Graphic, and asked to see it. The reporter described: "The family gathered around the bed to inspect it. At the first glance Dr. Straton sat bolt upright and Mrs. Straton who was holding the newspaper emitted sorrowful clucks. The-pastor's noseglasses slipped from his nose and he fumbled for them among the covers, retrieved them and put them in place. His eyes narrowed with anger as he looked at the picture...
...upright father even decided in favor of naughty Paris. He had faith in his son. Never was faith better placed. Under Carolus Duran, dutiful young John Sargent so "persevered in the Pine Arts" that he had no time for Parisian gaiety. In a negligee Bohemia his dress remained correct. Amid fads and fashions ornate, voluptuous, bizarre, he followed only Frans Hals and Velasquez. He learned, thoroughly, to build on true middle values, to accent with strictest simplicity...