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    LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  • PANKHURST, MRS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Frontispiece.
  • BRYAN, WILLIAM JENNINGS. . . . . . . . . . .Facing page 22
  • HOLMES, SHERLOCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Facing page 54
  • ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. . . . . . . . . . . . .Facing page 94
  • SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM . . . . . . . . . . . .Facing page 102
  • WILSON, WOODROW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Facing page 116

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    ABBREVIATIONS

  • A1.......... Can open charge account.
  • A. B........ Four years hard sentence.
  • A. M........ When we get up.
  • Cit......... Common people.
  • C. O. D..... No credit.
  • Cong........ A Washington organization used for social and investigation purposes.
  • D. D........ Be careful of your jokes.
  • Dem......... Politicians who get in office, once in awhile.
  • D. H........ Pull.
  • D. T........ Delirium tremens.
  • Ets......... The rest of us.
  • F. R. A..... Brains.
  • F. R. G. S.. People who do not stay at home.
  • G. O. P..... Hic jacet.
  • Hon......... Speaker of the occasion.
  • H. R. H..... Chief advertiser for cigarettes, mustard and kid gloves.
  • I........... Roosevelt.
  • Incog....... Prominent men in Paris.
  • IOU......... Hard luck.

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  • Ire......... Mother of politicians
  • LL. D....... American millionaires.
  • M. P........ Home rule debaters.
  • Parl........ Where the M. P.s debate.
  • P. M........ When we go to bed.
  • R. A........ Any kind of a painter but a cubist.
  • Rep......... See G. O. P.
  • R. I. P..... See following pages.
  • Sir......... Writers and tea merchants.
  • U. S. A..... Bryan + Wilson.

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    OBITUARY

  • Bryan, William Jennings, of U. S. A.
  • Cannon, Joseph G., of U. S. Congress.
  • Castro, Cipriano, of Venezuela Asphalt Trust.
  • Cavalieri, Lina, of Paris and New York City.
  • Cook, Doctor Fred. A., of New York City and Denmark.
  • Dewey, George E., of U. S. N.
  • Diaz, Perfiro, of Mexico.
  • Din, Gunga, of Kipling.
  • Dreyfus, Captain, of France.
  • Fallieres, Armand, of the French Republic.
  • Gorky, Maxime, of Russia.
  • Hafid, Mulai, of Morocco.
  • Hamed, Abdul, of Turkey.
  • Hammerstein, Oscar, of New York City and London.
  • Holmes, Sherlock, of Doyle.
  • Huerta, V., General of Mexico.
  • Irish Home Rule, of Ireland and London.
  • Johnson, Jack, of U. S. A.
  • Lloyd-George, David, of England.
  • Manuel, King, of Portugal.
  • Pankhurst, Mrs., of England.
  • Patti, Adelina, of Wales.

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  • Roberts, Frederick S., of Kandohr.
  • Rojesvensky, Admiral, of Russia.
  • Roosevelt, Theodore, of "The Outlook.''
  • Shackelton, Earnest, of England.
  • Shuster, Morgan, of Persia.
  • Sulzer, William, of Tammany Fall.
  • Taft, William Howard, of Cincinnati, U. S. A.
  • Time, Father, of Everywhere.
  • Turkey.
  • Widow, Merry, of Paris, London, and New York City.