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...from Boston, by way of Minneapolis (the set I bought), one was in Illinois and two (still in use) in Wisconsin. It would appear that the report that I had 100 responses from the Gazette advertising is an attempt to make it appear that red flannels still abound in Iowa. The title of the painting is to be The Bath-1880 not Farm Life. This further inaccuracy seems to be an even more flagrant attempt to wed Iowa to the red flannels and thus make the article more salable...
...insidious below-the belt fighting elsewhere. The mass of voters either laugh at an open fight, or they vote against a "knocker"; but they have never read "Brutus is an honorable man" and they do not recognize subtle defamation. The winning of campaigns by such means--and examples abound--is a knock-down blow to a faith in democracy...
Only eight hundred of the asked to the $50,000 Stanhope held in their home so it will intimate touch. Crowds fill the streets, door-checkers and bouncers abound for the purpose of keeping it exclusive; orchids and orchestras line the balcony; and the debutante and her parents, arrayed by Mr. Patou, greet some dismal but socially presentable friends. Beneath all this gay exterior a tragedy is taking place. The young musician, not realizing what he has done to the debutante, leaves her to marry the socialite, Jimmy Weaver, the third. Quite a noble conception...
...Third Republic. Like all Premiers before him, Doumergue cannot force groups of unruly Deputies to choose-between him and an appeal to the people in which they may lose their seats; but since the groups have therefore full power to under mine and overthrow the Cabinet, they abound and multiply...
MURDER IN THE CALAIS COACH-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Basing the tale on America's great kidnapping, the author brings the archcriminal to his doom on a snowbound Jugoslavian express. Coincidentally the rotund, penetrating Poirot is abroad. Clues abound. Alibis are frequent and unassailable but nothing confounds the great Hercule who, after propounding alternative solutions to his jury of two, retires modestly...