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Hoarse as a crow, his right hand in bandages, Nominee Curtis arrived in Chicago from his Western stumping trip. He had had two days' rest at home, in Kansas, but was still "very, very tired." Nevertheless, he said to the Speakers' Bureau: "Use me where I can do the most good." He took his sore finger and throat to a doctor, spent an afternoon at the horse races and then started off stumping again. After a side trip into Indiana, his itinerary called for a swing through the fermenting Northwest-North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin...
...inevitable was the Smith nomination, however, that most Democrats of any account were aboard the Smith wagon before the self-starter was depressed. As a result, there was very little "crow-eating" in the Democracy last week...
...crow of the fighting cock is Porto Rico's national anthem, sung from early dawn to murmurous dusk by spur-legged game-birds tethered in squalid door-yards all over the island. On Sundays the national anthem is stilled. Those sacks you see the natives carrying along the white roads on Sunday morning contain the coxcomb choir. They are going to the cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned...
...record. As night fell over the stones and spires of Innsbruck, the slumbers of gruff Governor Stumpf were interrupted by indignant student-patriots who assembled and shouted: "Down with our cowardly Government! It seeks to kill national pride!" Crestfallen Austrians lamented that they, defeated & disarmed, must eat Italian crow...
...reverberations of this uproar travelled, as the crow flies to the Hotel Bellevue and to City Hall. At the former, a speaker of the Boston Advertising Club calmed the city in general by allusions to the easy life among laundrymen and street cleaners on that side of the Charles. But for City Hall the darts were obviously meant and there they rattled impotently off the shield of Superintendent Crowley's indignation. "Our officers are the finest looking bunch of men in the State" he cried. "One shave a day is enough for them; and as for powdering their noses, laugh...