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...roast burn without tellin' Mamma!") Mamma makes Papa remove his suspenders in the street, to lower Philbert into a sewer. ("He thinks he sees a dime, don't he?") Tied to stilts, he helps Mamma sweep the floor. ("Another thing I thought of was sawing the broom off to fit him.'') He walks across the dinner table carrying a heaping dish. ("See if you can't take those Brussels sprouts over to Mrs. Dooley without stepping in Papa's plate again!") When his parents displease him he retires to a fully furnished packing...
...H.A.A. has swept clean. Although perhaps there may be a few tufts on Solders Field next fall that have escaped Mr. Bingham's broom, nevertheless the fact remains that the new coach has been given the power to pick and choose his assistants all down the line through the Freshman coaches...
Last week the Exposition opened on schedule and with it the new $1,225,000 Temple of Agriculture, penny-bright and new-broom clean. On hand was Chicago's Mayor Kelly to make a speech. Wilson & Co.'s Chairman Thomas Edward Wilson to entertain at dinner 1,300 healthiest members of the 4-H Club. New York's Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. to sit on the show's cattle department directorate, Dutchess County's Oakleigh Thome to see what his Eastern Aberdeen Anguses would do this year. Daily from Saturday to Saturday 35,000 visitors swarmed up & down...
...unqualifiedly labeled the whole thing spurious. The defense had no experts. A Herr Rev. Munchmeyer of Oldenberg, Germany had not even replied to the Nazi invitation to represent their side. The defense state of mind seemed to be that of Dr. Alfred Zander in whose journal Eisernen Besen (Iron Broom) the Protocols had been published. He testified simply that he considered them authentic because no one had ever complained about them before...
...group consisted chiefly of journalistic wits like Franklin Pierce Adams ("F. P. A."), Heywood Broun and Alexander Woollcott, who lunched together daily at the Algonquin Hotel. With them at the green baize table were two characters who did not fit into the regular membership. One was a nervous, profane, broom-thatched wild man from the West named Harold Ross. Born in Aspen, Colo., he had been a waterfront reporter in San Francisco, a picture-snatching newshawk in Atlanta, boss of a Negro gang in Panama and, most important, editor of the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. The other...