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...prompting Will Rogers to say: "America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it. ... There was elected to a very high office . . . just a plain, pleasant-looking, fat (and enjoying it), commonsense woman. ... I guess from her name, 'Miss,' that she is an old maid, but, darn it, I just liked her looks in the paper this morning and I believe she could teach these young modern heathens of ours some sense...
...Carl Sandburg. Big-eyed, thick-lipped, baldish, he looks Mediterranean rather than Jewish. With Charles MacArthur (husband of Actress Helen Hayes) he wrote the Broadway smash-hit The Front Page; with the same collaborator has written a new play that will be produced this year. Other books: Gargoyles, Erik Darn, 1001 Afternoons in Chicago, The Florentine Dagger, Humpty Dumpty, Broken Necks, Fantazius Mallare (limited and suppressed...
...exactly want to pick a king from Denmark, could the Norwegian people, all things considered, do better than to choose the husband of Tomboy Princess Maud, daughter of Mighty Britain, niece of Colossal Russia? In a second plebiscite 259,563 Norwegians voted for the young man who used to darn socks, sew on buttons; 69,264 voted against him. He was proclaimed King of Norway just 25 years ago last week, changing his name from Carl to Haakon...
Sober citizens of Chicago sometimes say: "Capone? Yes, it's amazing, isn't it? But you have to hand it to him. Why, he'll probably be mayor of Chicago before he's through. Seriously?and he'd probably be a darn good...
Engaged. Lyle E. Womack, divorced husband of Flyer Ruth Elder (now Mrs. Walter Camp Jr.); to Ella Bisset, Minneapolis socialite. Said he: "It's a darn sight easier to tame foxes than to tame a woman...