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...Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, aged four, slipped off a chest of drawers, broke his foot, and thereby forfeited all claim to military training and parental affection. But if a sickly cripple could not wield a saber, he could at least study the scriptures, and Maurice, aged thirteen, was consigned to the ecclesiastical limbo. Twenty years later he wore the Miter of Autun. Thence for sixty odd years the imperturbable Talleyrand stood at the right elbow of every government that held sway in Paris. Through the maze of diplomacy and intrigue he walked, smiling ironically, drinking deeply and often...
...meaning of President Lowell's retirement. Time is an inexorable Juggernaut in the path of which none can stand; yet to some it seemed far too soon. There is so much that is well begun remaining yet to be finished, and the hand that sketched the outline can best wield the brush for the finishing strokes. These are the practical and trite considerations with which the Vagabond rationalizes his wish that the great man might have remained at the helm just a little longer...
Next to General von Schleicher, the most prominent new Cabinet figure is Baron Wilhelm von Gayl, Minister of Interior. Charged with the federal policing of all Germany, this typical Prussian junker (landed aristocrat) can wield much power in the coming Reichstag election. During the War as Chief Political Officer of the Eastern Army Command and afterward as Governor of Northern Lithuania in 1918 he showed both velvet tact and an iron hand...
...Woodworth, who will wield the baton in this presentation was the joint conductor, with Dr. A. T. Davison '05, of the Harvard Glee Club in its concert in honor of Gustav Holst...
...Lindbergh refused to pay ransom; if they backed the State police, Federal agents, private detectives; if they stood behind the powerful press, if they resolved to prosecute the criminals, they would wield such a mighty club that kidnapping would become a rare crime...