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...wordless thought! Till, suddenly, surpassing wit, Spontaneous meadows spring in it; And I am but a glass between Un-walked in meadows, gold and green. The Author's most famed productions have never met the public eye, are fitter for private ears. Prolific parent of a Rabelaisian brood of limericks, bans mots, parodies, a troop of outrageous, robustious characters of fancy, Oliver St. John Gogarty is a doctor by trade (throat specialist). Now an Irish Senator, he was a bitter enemy of the Republicans, once faced a firing squad but escaped by swimming the Liffey. In gratitude he presented...
...European conflict-and what a conflict!-within a short time. . . . Will the Nazis take Salzburg by force? And if this coup takes place, however it may happen, will Europe let it occur without acting?" In Vienna last week Chancellor Dollfuss, like a chick trying to round up a brood of flustered hens, was trying desperately to get together a political consolidation to fight Naziism. President Wilhelm Miklas had shown him last week the Socialist petition signed by 1,250,000 Austrians, nearly one-third of the electorate, demanding the end of the Dollfuss dictatorship and a convocation of Parliament...
...have made her one up. It looked serious at the time but seven holes farther on Helen Hicks might well have forgotten it because she was four up and it looked as though Virginia Van Wie's game had cracked completely. By lunch time, she had cause to brood about that putt again;.her opponent had cut her lead to two, with a fine four at the 16th and a good putt for another at the 18th. In the afternoon, with the wind dying down, they halved the first hole and Virginia Van Wie won the second, with...
...with the problem in ten States for a month. The scheme's whole purpose was to get 500,000,000 Ib. of live pork out of the way by Jan. i, four times that amount next year, by rushing to market little pigs before they became big pigs, brood sows before they had another litter. The proposal called...
...roll prepared by Postmaster Farley for the President's approval. July 15 was to be the day when the Democracy got its hands on its first batch of Federal small jobs. ¶ By means of a highly complicated schedule, the President had managed to see most of his brood during his vacation cruise. One whom he did not see, and of whom he had not seen much since the inauguration, was Son-in-law Curtis B. Dall. Broker Dall did not even appear at the White House during the prolonged stay of Mrs. Dall (''America...