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...election. Inchoate dissatisfaction against one has thrown the other into power, while revolt against both has sporadicaly brought about the election of a third-party candidate. Such revolt dates farther back than the recent election to Congress of Magnus Johnson in Minnesota, even farther than 1891, when James B. Weaver was presidential candidate of the populists in the same region...
Wallace Irwin's sense of humor was constantly with him in those days. He wrote light verse and lighter prose. He was a burlesque writer for the Republic Theatre in San Francisco. Before John V. A. Weaver was out of short pants, he had written The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum and other poems "in American." His Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy made firm his reputation. Since then he has turned away from humor determinedly to write serious novels. Yet, principally, he is a lover of a good story. He will tell you the complicated plot...
...Town Talk, a journal of Alexandria, La., is to be believed, Eddie Cicotte, Joe Jackson, Swede Risberg and Buck Weaver (who were ousted from organized baseball in (1919) have been earning an honest wage as members of the Bastrop, La., semiprofessional nine. "The team has been cleaning up in Morehouse Parish and has walloped almost every club it has met in north Louisiana and south Arkansas. . . . Members of the Alexandria club say that Jackson and Cicotte are still with the Bastrop team, but Risberg and Weaver have gone elsewhere. . . . Cicotte is playing under the name of Moore...
...Chairman, G. L. Mattheson, Loring Ware: D. D. Reldy, Helen Mitchell; F. W. Saunders, Lucille Coburn; W. S. Smith, E. E. Boland; D. H. Wallance, Helen Leland: J. C. White, Florence Canton; Wilbor Whittemore, Marguerite Weaver...
...glorious relics of the weaver's art are series depicting the "Hunt for the Unicorn," symbol of chastity and immortality. Since 1450 the unicorn has adorned the Castle of Verteuil, home of the Counts of La Rochefoucauld...