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...they? Heroes? Sublime, splendid men? Perhaps if they had lived and died in peace, working actually being useful--then perhaps they might have aspired to those titles. But how can we grant them to them when they wasted their genius in killing and being killed, in futile effort, vain self-sacrifice, in foolish, cruel endeavor...
...faith can come and will come to better days." Since he flew to Chicago in early July to accept the nomination, Governor Roosevelt has stumped 17,000 miles-a record. His campaign was spirited, ingratiating, comparatively decent and free from bad errors on which G. 0. Partisans waited in vain to pounce. He had been careful not to promise too much. His travels had effectively silenced Republican talk that he was a crippled weakling who could not stand the White House strain...
...which knows no frantic distress, no crying in the wilderness nor whining in the prior, the Vagabond would be sore at heart. He comes from his annual scuffle with the defenders of that most unaccountable of God's creatures, the Boston debutante. And of course his eloquence has been vain in the face of adamantine prejudice. The Vagabond, however, would not have his wisdom lost to humanity and he here sets down for the Ages the choicest of his thoughts...
...vest- With pride in his glance And a shine on his pants- Uncle Sam needs a man who can take it! Comedian Barclay has little to do throughout the performance save appear stupid, but Rex Weber and Impersonator Albert Carroll are called upon often and not in vain. Mr. Weber vastly amuses his audience by prodigious feats of ventriloquism, then turns serious and leads a band of breadline tatterdemalions in a genuinely stirring ballad called "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" Mr. Carroll is at various times a spiritual medium, Lynn Fontanne, James John Walker...
...Chicago, Mrs. Bessie Smolen sued for divorce because her husband had left home two years ago, saying he was going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. For two years she had watched newspapers in vain for news of the event...