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...Walker's sundry private car trips through the country during his seven years of office, Senator Hastings did not reveal. But he did say that he considered himself responsible for a $2,008.34 debt, still unpaid, to Pullman Co. for the chartered car in which he and his dapper friend dashed out to get in on California's Mooney Case last winter...
Personally Kern is the antithesis of the layman's notion of a prosperous Tin Pan Alleyman. There is nothing dapper or brisk about him. He has frizzy grey hair, a beaklike nose down which his spectacles are always sliding. He hates fripperies. He never has been known to wear a new hat. He buys them from his friends when they are through with them. A clean piece of manuscript paper strikes terror to his heart. He writes his tunes on old scores or he may scuff on a piece of paper until it looks properly seasoned. He is quiet...
Veterans. Dapper, aggressive John Thomas Taylor of the American Legion and dark, stocky L. S. ("Ted") Ray of the Veterans of Foreign Wars pushed the War widows pension bill through the House last week. But Lobbyist Ray failed to get the Bonus out of committee...
...Lansing, Ill., two men entered the Oak Glen Trust & Savings Bank. One was calm, swart, carried a machinegun. The other, nervous, blond, dapper, carried a pistol. The nervous blond was too embarrassed to take money from the cashier's drawer. Said his colleague: "Open the drawer, you lug." Later the blond's gun-hand shook so violently the gun discharged, the bullet going into the floor. Shouted his colleague, no longer calm: "You heat head, put that gun away before you shoot yourself." Said the blond, calmer now: "Quit picking on me. I'm doing the best...
...serious, preoccupied visionary expression of the general. Jane Mast shared honors in her capable presentation of Josephine. The experienced manner in which she conducted an intrigue was positively exciting. Robert Breckinridge '34 was a highly amusing Hippolyte. Vernon Hodges '34 as Mr. Morris was sufficiently dapper and sophisticated. Some of the parts were somewhat overdone, rough spots in the acting were perhaps too often apparent. On the whole, however, the plot was clever and amusing, the presentation creditably done...