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...reactionary," Mr. Snell will be fought by the Wrestern irregulars. Because he is "ineffectual," Mr. Tilson will be shunned by many of his fellow Eastern "reactionaries." Who, then, would be offered as the Republican compromise? Last fortnight Observer Clinton W. Gilbert's often accurate political finger pointed to bald, bespectacled Carl Edgar Mapes of Grand Rapids, Mich., 18 years a Congressman. Universally respected and trusted, 56-year-old Congressman Mapes substituted for Speaker Longworth more often than any other member of the House. He is quiet-spoken, famed for fair play, an expert on legislative procedure. In Congress...
Somewhat stealthily, as the vote neared, several Deputies stole out. Not one of these craven abstainers was bald. Bald deputies, Madrid noticed, voted almost without exception for votes-for-women. Very young Deputies, dandies with sleek black sideburns, vainly voted in the negative...
Quivering with excitement such as he scarcely ever reveals on the concert platform, bald-headed Violinist Mischa Elman wrote a letter last month from St. Jean-de-Luz, France, to his father in Manhattan. Made public last week, the letter told how Violinist Elman had given a party for Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin ''which will long linger in the memory of those who were there." Cinemactor Chaplin told Edward Prince of Wales "what a wonderful time he had at my house . . . The Prince, who came here for a vacation, and being evidently tired to be constantly with...
...Milton, N. H., one night last week, an automobile careened down the street and smashed into a telephone pole. Police approached the darkened car, peered in at a bald man, pronounced him drunk, took him to the station house. When they got him under a light and saw who he was they immediately released him, preferred no charges. He was Judge Eri C. Oakes, 42, of the State Superior Court...
...when the League was formed, Mexico was suffering one of her periodic revolutions, and, considered unworthy by lantern-jawed President Wilson, was not invited to join. Last week in Geneva, bald, eagle-beaked Viscount Cecil publicly admitted his partial responsibility for this slight, apologized...