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...although all seem to anticipate the slogan, "big business," as the main dish, there are open differences over the fixings. Senator George of Georgia stipulates that the Democratic Party shall "refuse to make any alliance with radical forces." Senator Bruce of Maryland concurs with him that the confidence of legitimate business must not be sacrificed through compromise with the "creak-brain economic vagaries of Bryan west". On the other hand, Senator King of Utah, conservative but none the less western, reminds his party that they must provide "a wise farm policy". Further in this direction, Representative Howard, significantly from Nebraska...
...oyster in Grimsby, England (my native city), with two ordinary mice trapped by the neck and killed. The custom is to feed oysters with barley water in a dish. The oyster one day with shell open was attacked by mice and closed his shell. Thousands of picture cards were sold by Lowthian Bros., photographers. I would not have believed it if I had not seen the animals in the photographer's window. Live oysters are sure mousetraps...
...production entitled "Sweetheart Time" could hardly be a startlingly original offering. The title conjures up all that is trite and inconsequential in musical comedy and leads us to expect sickly sentimentality decked in shimmering summer dresses, roses, and orange blossoms--an unseasonable dish, certainly, for a long winter evening. And true enough, the sentimentality, the summer dresses, the roses, and the orange blossoms are all present. Even so "Sweetheart Time" makes easy escape from the anticipated slough of hum-drum mediocrity...
...resumed their normal health and spirits after a period of torpor induced by the consumption of the following yuletide viands, as estimated by Der Tag: 3½ million pounds of meat, chiefly geese and heavy cuts suitable for roasting; slightly under one million pounds of carp, the traditional and indispensable dish of the German for Christmas Eve; 4 million eggs; 1 million pounds of sugar; 125 tons of fruits and nuts; and "at least 210 million marks' worth of beer and wine...
...LETTERS. Frontal attack, rude and discourteous, many letters seem even when accusing you of the same offenses. I fear some readers have a carping eye and are what I term piddling readers-they miss the flavor of the meat because they object to the pattern of the dish. More power to ye, Mr. Editor...