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Unpleasant little things may have afflicted Massachusetts Republicans on Election Day, but national good fortune has its redeeming features. And so "the political plum tree," announces a news despatch in a Boston Paper, will he loaded down with "2000 luscious jobs" when the federal census is take in 1930. Most of the workers will receive only from $80 to $200 for two weeks work, but for those who are more deserving, there are a number of "very fat" positions as supervisors. Evidently the only question worrying the leaders of the Grand Old Party in the Bay State is just...
...prey's (or enemy's) face. A drop of its venom blinds the eyes. Dr. Monaelesser hoped that a drop properly treated might be beneficial in epilepsy, nervous disease of obscure causes. So the two learned men tried to make the poor venomous fool angry and despatch his poison at a piece of glass. Perhaps wiser than most snakes, perhaps as lazy as most, the cobra spewed forth only a thin and useless spray. The two wise men felt foolish...
...fist at one's neighbor and then complain if he shows unfriendliness. I now believe in the sincerity of Japan's desire to enter once more into negotiations with our Government. . . . As soon as negotiations for the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Shantung are completed, we must despatch our own best soldiers to protect the lives and property of Japanese colonists there. . . . Since we are now awaiting the arrival of the new Japanese Minister [to China, M. Yoshizawa], I suggest that he be greeted in the friendliest manner possible and every effort made to reach an accord...
...confirmative despatch, succinct and unequivocal, declared: "A prelate generally known as the spokesman for Cardinal Gasparri [famed, beetling-browed Papal Secretary of State] frankly said today that five basic points have been substantially agreed upon" between representatives of Dictator Benito Mussolini and Pope Pius...
...collateral marvel of their work was the speed with which their news reached the world. As soon as they relanded at Deception Island, Captain Wilkins sent a long news despatch from the whaler Hektoria, which is standing by him. The despatch went 7,500 miles by short wireless wave to the office of the San Francisco Examiner, one of the Hearst papers financing his expedition. The Examiner and its sister papers made adequate and proper ado about their exclusive news...