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Only small crumb of comfort the husbandmen had last week: announcements that Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery, Ward were reducing mail-order prices from...
...Administration for the kind of farm relief it was supplying continued to grow at such a rate that President Hoover was seriously advised by G. O. P. leaders to give up his summer trip into that disaffected territory lest unseemly scenes along his route cause him public embarrassment. Only crumb of comfort for the Administration and the Board: in his daily syndicated message Calvin Coolidge said: "It would certainly be fair and probably wise to defer judgment on the reported actions of the Federal Farm Board until the results are fully matured and they are in a position to reveal...
Which does not show that the undersigned has read "The King's Henchman" with due reverence or he'd have included the lapidary line, "I could do mousily by a crumb of cheese." There are already two schools former and formidable in re the quoted line. One cannot but believe that Miss Millay intended "mousily" to express classic restraint. The other answers that on the contrary "mousily" show a fervid romanticism, for was not "mousily" used by Ooblinskingdorften in his Critique des Souris in which he quaintly puts it. "I under the cheeses will but now be most droneen...
...newspapers long since assumed the robes of justice. For years the protagonists in sensational trials have been obliged to undergo scrutiny by a row, and lately a galleryful, of gimlet-eyed reporters, swift to pounce upon every crumb of speech or gesture; brusque, oily or slyly intrusive with their cameras at the courthouse door...
...same grave color, sat staring at a pair of red plush curtains. It was a breathless moment. Once the curtains, brushed from behind by a moving shape, vaguely stirred, and then an excited whisper rippled over the red room and vanished in diminishing circles of sound, as if a crumb had been dropped into a pool of claret...