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...secret the Isolationist command-some ten Senators, some 50 House members-met in the Caucus room of the Senate Office Building one night last week, gloomily chewed the bitter cud of defeat, gloomily decided that even a Senate filibuster was out of the question. Missing was their best strategist, Montana's Burton K. Wheeler, who was out beating the bushes for some additional Isolationist recruits...
...life. The ex-swampland which is Eliot House and the far-off wilderness which is Dunster are no more descended from the Romans' Campus Martius than are the peaceful preserves of Hollis and Stoughton. Both sides of Mass. Ave. are equally consecrated to intellectual grazing, luminating, and chewing the cud...
Before his mike, Allen always chews nervously on a wad of gum; away from the studios, he substitutes a cud of cut-plug for his Beech-Nut. He regards chewing tobacco as a safer habit than cigaret smoking. "When you smoke cigarets," he points out, "you're likely to burn yourself to death; with chewing tobacco the worst thing you can do is drown a midget...
From Washington came provocative news last week. Its cud could and would be chewed for the next decade by manufacturers, economists, biologists, social planners, realtors, politicians, dreamers, speculators. It was the near-final figures on the 1940 Census...
...hated democracy in all its forms. "Democracy," says Mr. Shanks, "meant to him simply a system under which incompetent people strove to take work out of the hands of people competent to do it." Kipling apparently imbibed this conviction with his mother's milk, and it was cud enough for him to chew all his life long. Even Partisan Shanks does not quite like the sound of some of Kipling's youthful regurgitations. Speaking of Kipling's early manner, Shanks deprecates his "cynical knowingness . . . drawling and cynical knowledge , . . not really an endearing quality...