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...DELIVER AMERICA FROM THIS MODERN DON QUIXOTE. ROOSEVELT THE SECOND UPSETS ANOTHER CHERISHED AMERICAN TRADITION. ABANDONING THE SLOGAN, SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK, MADE POPULAR BY TEDDY THE GREAT, OUR REBEL-ROUSING ROOSEVELT MAKES IT READ "BRAY LOUDLY AND BRANDISH A FEATHER DUSTER...
Witless, but spreading like wildfire, is a Palladium war tune, Run Rabbit Run.* Celebrities in the audience, such as Beatrice Lillie or Ivor Novello, have been yanked up on the stage to bray it out. Novello, composer of World War I's Keep the Home Fires Burning, has written a new marching song, We'll Remember the Meadows, which will be introduced at the opening of his new show next week...
...Lehman was persuaded to run this year only on condition that his legal Man Friday, 35-year-old former Supreme Court Justice Charles Poletti, share his responsibilities as Lieutenant Governor. This move angered Roman Catholics and conservatives because it entailed the dropping of Catholic Lieut. Governor M. William Bray in favor of American Laborite Poletti, who is neither. To appease Catholics, the Lehman forces pointed to renominated Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr., Senatorial Candidate James Mead. To appease conservatives, Candidates Lehman and Poletti last week indignantly repudiated the proffered support of New York's Communist Party...
...word without a meaning is a dead word, a corrupt word. . . . Let us write that word in large black letters on a sheet of foolscap; then solemnly apply a match to the paper. . . . Now let us bray the ashes in a mortar with a goose-feather pen, and declare in unison singing together that anyone who uses that word in future is a ring-the-bell-and-run-away man, a mischief maker, a groper among old bones, the proof of whose defilement is written in a smudge of dirty water upon his face." The word Virginia Woolf thus exorcises...
...Brasher (pronounced Bray-sher) inherited a tremendous ambition from his father, a Wall Street broker and amateur ornithologist who had known the great John James Audubon, had thought his work incomplete and inaccurate, had urged young Rex to paint all the birds of the U. S. and paint them better. Obediently, after years of spare-time study, Rex bought a sailboat for $600, coasted from Maine to Florida, piercing inlets, foraging ashore for all the birds he could find. And later, on $10,000 race-track winnings, he traveled the continent for three years- everywhere sketching. With the whole West...