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...Chicago's World's Fair. He was long President of Chicago's First National Bank-"its brains and body" forgotten La Salle Streeters called him. He married a Minnesota woman, a Colorado woman, a California woman. He "discovered" Frank A. Vanderlip. At 80, a soft veil of hair covered his head; with spreading beard and whiskers, he looked more of a statesman than Charles Evans Hughes. He lived to be 90. Not one gumchewer could have told another his name. It was Lyman Judson Gage...
...best Shubert tradition. As a morality play, its sly emphasis upon the fleshly temptations, its substitution of "Mammy" sentimentality for virtue, its salacious exaltation of a physical technicality to the plane of spiritual value damn it. It is simply a huge hypocrisy parading under a thin veil of moral pretense...
Director King Vidor at times achieves heights: the love scene in a boat gliding under a veil of weeping willow leaves; the tantalizing suspense as the King's eccentric moods alternately delay and hasten his procession to the scene of execution; the camera angles at which the "Stunts" are filmed. Bardelys deserves its popularity, though it falls short of the best of its kind...
...your article in TIME, Aug. 16, entitled Thumb's House. We have just been entertaining here at our home the gentleman who has put the house up for sale. Also we have just returned from the wedding of our daughter at Exeter when she wore the same wedding veil of real Brussels lace that was worn by Lavinia Warren when she married the General Tom Thumb 60 years ago. Lavinia was first cousin to the present bride's grandmother...
Mother M. Alphonsa Lathrop, 75-year-old daughter of Poet Nathaniel Hawthorne, widow of Novelist George Parsons Lathrop (died 1898) had established this institution a few years after taking the veil (1899) to provide a place where destitute cancer victims could die in peace. No efforts to cure were made. "So long as they fretted about radium and operations, they were miserable," Dr. John L. Shells, physician to the institution, said only last week. "It seems to me that radium makes them worse, unless it is applied very early. . . .We let them alone and just keep them comfortable, and sometimes...