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Since De Valera's Fianna Fail is opposed in principle to accepting any ministry in the cabinet of a regime which they detest and hope to convert into a republic sooner or later observers thought last week that a coalition government headed by Tom Johnson, leader of the Labor Party, would have most chance to supplant President Cosgrave...
...detest them especially when they are long. They are unprogressive, impracticable, unhealthy. They are masks for solemn humbugs, weak chins, degenerate and receding jaws. They are nests for bacteria. . . . Bah! I hate beards...
...hear famed Menshevik* Alexander Feodorovitch Kerensky, onetime Russian Dictator, speak at the Century Theatre, Manhattan. Amid furious excitement a half-ton bronze candelabra was uprooted and flung down in the lobby by the sheer pressure of the crowd. Bolsheviks† yelled. Tsarists brandished canes. Both factions detest M. Kerensky because he is more radical than the Tsarists and less radical than the Bolsheviks...
Vexations. The Nicaraguan Liberals, who have been skirmishing and countermarching in an effort to overthrow Dictator Chamorro, were vexed last week at the inauguration of President Diaz whom they equally detest...
Naked. A girl, frail, comes to detest herself, drinks poison, invents ax lovely lie of disappointed love to justify her conduct, clothe her unlovely nature with attractive personality. Doctors come to the rescue. Subsequent arrival of alleged betrayers strips her of the pretty lie, reveals her what she really is. The shame is top cruel. She drinks poison again, dies this time, confessing her naked self...