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Polls & Partisans. Dry fodder to Republicans, but to Jim Farley and the Democratic donkey a feast, were the presidential straw votes conducted by The Literary Digest and the Hearst-papers. Every four years since 1920 the Digest's poll has successfully predicted the outcome with never more than a 5% error in the total vote. Each time the victorious G. O. P. accepted the poll at full value, hailed it as accurate, authoritative. This year the Digest's canvass of some 20 million citizens points strongly to a Democratic sweep. Last week the vote stood...
Died. Sarah Edwards Nast, 91, relict of famed Cartoonist Thomas Nast (no kin of Publisher Condé Nast) who invented the political symbols of the Tammany Hall tiger, the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey; in New Rochelle...
...days last week. All Miss Giulia's jewelry was sold with the rest. Besides her famed four-strand pearl necklace and her 25-carat Ceylon sapphire there was a box full of diamond brooches in the shapes of cow, crescent, rooster, grasshopper, wild duck, beetle, bee, donkey, horse & cab, the U. S. flag, lizard...
...front yard, painted the front steps red with green risers, the first story bright orange-yellow, the trim of the front door bright blue, the door green, the upper story red, white, green and blue, striped and smeared. She hung two big dummies against the . wall, painted a donkey, an elephant, seven jackasses, a sign "Speak gently, shush, KISS ME," a figure of blindfolded Justice saying "Oh. my!" in an attitude of dancing, a large stein of beer labeled "Oh, boy!." and the legend. "Don't you know you're being ridiculed?" Mrs. Warren's library includes...
...went to England this year, the one between George Voigt and Leonard Crawley, a Dunfrieshire. schoolmaster better known in England for his cricket than his golf. Crawley's iron on the :8th overshot the green and bounced against the Cup which, with its bright silver handles sticking out like donkey's ears, was standing on the clubhouse lawn...