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...sets ringing no tocsin of reform but the welkin echoes its topical tintinnabulations. Aside from and under its uproarious humor, Hizzoner the Mayor has grimmer implications that need underlining nowadays for few U. S. citizens. In the perennial Augean task of turning the rascals out, such hearty slapstick broom-thwacks as Author Sayre's may be as effective in the long run as all the Herculean street-cleaning apparatus of a Judge Seabury...
...James John ("Jimmy") Walker, his predecessor, than a year's investigating by Samuel Seabury. Mayor McKee, young, handsome, sober, tackled his new job with a vigor and thoroughness that made many a New Yorker who had forgotten what good government was like gasp with happy astonishment. A new broom, he swept clean and by last week had accumulated a sizeable pile of Tammany trash...
Flea Cousin Charlie has been taught to push about an infinitesimal ball. Flea Napoleon trudges along with a small wire cannon in tow. Flea Reuben tugs a roller. Prompted with a bit of broom straw, Napoleon, Reuben and Cousin Charlie are encouraged to race. There are, in addition, six dancing fleas. Rudolf from Hapsburg operates a tiny carousel, but one suspects that the Professor's favorite is "Caesar and his Roman chariot...
...dust, chalk, clay, bad weather make teaching hard on clothes. (Use a whisk-broom, towel, shoebrush...
Though Clemence Dane's "Broome Stages" is a novel of seven generations of a theatrical family, Miss Dane found her inspiration in the Plantagenet kings and not in any of the great stage families. She had always considered the Plantagenets the most interesting family in the world but thought the period too far back in history to make an interesting setting for a book. Then someone suggested that she could write about the Plantagenets if she made them actors, for actors are autocrats and the great families of the stage are the last dynasties that exercise the divine rights...