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...lepers on Molokai gazed out to sea one day last week and beheld a long smoky line of ships smudging the Pacific horizon. Cut off from the world, few of the lepers knew that they were sighting the U. S. Scouting Force, assembled in Hawaiian waters to begin the Navy's annual war games. Normally based on the Atlantic seaboard, the armada was in Pacific waters for the second successive year. Economy had been the Navy's explanation for not sending the Scouting Force home. Japan urbanely ignored any darker reason...
...through which ran the same Democratic tidal wave that swept Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the White House. In January, prime month for state inaugurals, voters repaired to their capitols to hear and see the men on whom they had staked their hopes of a change for the better. They beheld new faces not nearly so handsome as the campaign posters, heard voices containing much less self-assurance than on the stump...
...return from Ireland "bring rebellion broached on his sword:" only Shakespeare could waken their enthusiasm again, and show Essex his danger and his opportunity. And so the "History of King Richard II" was put on the boards on the Bankside, with a double moral for its time. The audience beheld the tyranny of Hereford, while Essex took the hint from the king who lost a crown by intriguing in Ireland. In February 1601, with three hundred followers, he rode again to the palace gates, but this time the queen was ready. The last act of Essex's tragedy confirmed...
Governor Roosevelt did not define his character with equal precision, did not say who he was, where he lived, what he did. When Alfred Emanuel Smith first beheld Mr. Roosevelt's tactics he cried "Demagog!" at his old friend "Frank," hotly declared he would "take off my coat & vest and fight to the end against any candidate" who tried to set class against class, rich against poor. But as the campaign progressed, the Governor continued to flatter and comfort a vague and various mass of the electorate by charging that President Hoover had overlooked them in administering Depression relief...
...droll doctor is Rollo Eugene Dyer, assistant director of the National Institute of Health. His favorite drollery last summer was to pull up his trouser leg and exhibit a small, fine-meshed cage strapped to his skin. Friends peeping into the cage beheld a herd of fleas contentedly nipping at the doctor's epidermis. Raillery was always in order. Dr. Dyer is a collector of stamps. Had he now become a flea collector? He is fond of dogs. Was he shielding his dogs from vermin? No, Dr. Dyer would chuckle, and his friends seldom realized that he had ceased...