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Recalling that Sir Harry's impersonations include an idiot Scotch boy who drools into a kitchen bowl, and a Scotchman who constantly wipes his nose with his sleeve, and that Sir Harry's principal joke is still the one about stinginess, Critic Andrew Dewar Gibbs summed...
...viscountcy in 1924. He is acceptable to the Liberals because he is a Liberal, has been a party member both in the Commons and the Lords. He is acceptable to the Conservatives because as captain of Eton and Cambridge teams he is remembered as a cricketer who could bowl a fast "googly," an ability which still serves him well, spinning curling stones over slippery Canadian ice; because he is a famed grouse shot, was once told by George V (one of the best wing shots in England), that "a little serious work" would make him the best shot in England...
...been at the root of many cases of overproduction. Small competitors cannot afford to restrict output, prefer to sell by price-cutting. International competition has also been a major difficulty. And mechanical improvements have upset many an industry. Chadbourne. That smart Lawyer Chadbourne realizes sugar is in the same bowl with many another industry was shown in a speech he delivered at last week's Brussels meeting. "All industries," said he, "have transgressed good economic laws. . . . The capitalistic system is on trial. If you think the people who are running the industries of the world can by reason...
Harvard and Yale played before a crowd of 74,786 people in the Yale Bowl. At the Army game there were 57,986 people, and for the Dartmouth game 57,925 tickets were issued. The actual attendance at that game was doubtless far below that number because of the rain...
Sometimes crawling at a walking pace along the narrow, level path past the cots, sometimes swooping at 30 m. p. h. around the steep sides of the great bowl built of spruce boards in Madison Square Garden, bicycle riders raced in the 40th International Six-Day Race. Old Reggie MacNamara, a champion twelve years ago and still strong though no longer fast, was entered; so was big, blond, popular Charles Winter; Gaetano Belloni's wild mane of crinkly hair pushed out above his handlebars. The crowds, always emphatically Italian in Manhattan, cheered Linari & Binda, billed as an imported road...