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...only one lecture in Canada, the Toronto Telegram headlined: A LION ON A LEASH AND THAT LEASH U.S.A. Newsmen recalled the New York Telegraph's headline upon the occasion that the late Poet-Laureate Robert Bridges refused interviews in the U.S.: KING'S CANARY REFUSES TO CHIRP...
...James John Walker at Cape Ferrat, French Riviera, but not too ill to chirp: "Do I eat like I was sick or dead?" Edna Ferber, infected in London, convalesced at nearby Nice. In Paris the American Hospital opened two special wards to care for numerous LL S. victims. Forehanded Paris undertakers formally declared that they were short of coffins...
...State alone does not have to make an annual report on his semisecret activities. Last week the other nine members finished rendering their bulky swansongs to President Hoover or the Congress. Each told in great statistical detail how his department had weathered the Depression. Some added a cheerful chirp or two about confidence in the future and a few, despite the fact that they go out of office March 4, boldly made recommendations for new legislation. Excerpts...
Before Mr. Sinclair's Consolidated Oil Corp. (the telephone girls still chirp: "Sinclair") is really "in California" it must have a wide California distribution system. For that reason Consolidated has been bidding, up a notch, then up another, for stricken Richfield Oil Co. with its 5.800 service stations. Fortnight ago the Consolidated offer of securities worth $27,600.000 stood $5,000,000 above the best bid placed by Mr. Kingsbury's Standard (TIME, Nov. 14). But last week Mr. Kingsbury, who relishes practical jokes, chortled a good last chortle. For the Richfield banking creditors' committee decided...
...Seated at dinner beside a young, twittering debutante, he ate three courses without speaking. She, awed by her famed companion, finally nerved herself to ask, "What do you consider the most important thing in life, Mr. Strachey?" From behind the red bush of his beard came the high, squeaky chirp, "Passion...