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Anyone failing to sign the Consumer's NRA agreement has passed up the opportunity of receiving a fairly accurate barometer. Our 4¼x5 in. pledge starts to curl at the bottom when a storm threatens; curls decidedly when it starts, and flattens out when the moisture has left...
...grin he wore, and many of the critical faculty could never restrain a condescending note when they spoke, in Mr. Mencken's phrase, of the golden heart that beat beneath the motley. So long as our illuminate gently pat the heads of direct, self possessed, and mature artists and curl their lips at homespun, so long must we be judged in the world as a literary cocktail compounded of six parts young intensity and four parts fragile aniiquarianism. Or so Castor tells me. POLLUX...
...Chamber of Deputies passed the Foreign Office budget for 1933 last week. U. S. correspondents noted the fact, then prospected for news nuggets through page after page of official specifications. A 175-page supplement caused their hair to curl. Leonine Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour had demanded and got an additional appropriation of 33,000,000 francs ($1,320,000) for French propaganda abroad. In the introduction to his demand he explained that nine European Governments annually spend the following sums (in francs) in foreign propaganda: Germany: 256,000,000 (before Hitler) Italy: 119,000,000 France...
...remained for Senator Glass to curl his lip scornfully, grip his desk with both hands and pronounce a final damnation of the Soft Money arguments. Drawled he out of the right corner of his mouth...
...with a lute suspended from a silver cord around his neck, comes in with a repertory of ballads and lyrics, and sings for them--Campion's latest stanzas, perhaps, or some slight verses of his own. The crude excitements of the times vanish in the music, and the dogs curl up their paws by the flames...