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Last week a despatch from Madrid announced new hope for a successful compromise between thrills and humanity. Utilizing discarded automobile tires a rubber coat has been devised for the bull ring horse, thick straw pads hung along the sides. It is hoped that bulls will not object to the innovation; will be satisfied with burying their horns in straw; will not insist upon horseflesh or nothing...
Over the radio the above given receipt was broadcast. Then came the question: "What dish is that, then? What is the name of the dish just described?" To make it easier, listeners-in were warned, a few minutes before the receipt was given, to despatch one of their number to the kitchen and fetch the cook. It was felt that an able cook could cry out: "Coffee souffle!" after hearing it described...
...relations with the foreign powers continue to be friendly. . . . My Government felt it necessary to despatch to the Far East a sufficient force to protect the lives of my British and Indian subjects against mob violence and armed attacks. . . . But . . . my Government has caused proposals to be made to the Chinese authorities which should convince public opinion in China and throughout the world that it is the desire of the British people to remove all real grievances, to renew pur treaties on an equitable basis and to place our future relations with the Chinese people on a footing of friendship...
...Democrat must march with the squad, Senator Ransdell, bearded Louisiana interventionist, might add his patriarchal pep to the rear rank. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, who despatched six more warships to Nicaragua last week, all the while keeping a shroud of silence over the ugly hulking war scare, should also do his bit in the squad?perhaps a hornpipe. Finally, Democrats agreed, the very man to march in the rear rank, just in front of File Closer Kellogg, would be his former law partner, Assistant Secretary of State Robert Edwin Olds. Mr. Olds it is whom rumor accuses of successfully...
...their unique distinction as hunters of ovis poli when, last week, an expedition for the American Museum of Natural History, under William J. Morden and James L. Clark, cabled from Peking its return from Tibet and Turkestan with enough of the creatures to make a large family group. The despatch said ovis poli were 'not so rare'; reported that the natives slaughter them wholesale for meat; reported seeing 33 in one herd. . . . My brother, Theodore, was active last week making speeches in his native state (New York), on military economy (which he at- tacked) and migration to farms...