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...venture to guess that those who are the most fervent believers in this preparation will make up the majority of those who will shortly become "exes...
...staunch supporters of Will Rogers who desired a humorist in the White House are beginning to perk up. Only a few months ago the Chief Executive also headlined the Fourth Estate with the fervent desire that the London Naval Conference would bring about "a definite slash in armaments," not merely a limitation treaty. The Washington Wit scores not so much in this amusing reversal of form as in the revelation that both of these Spectacles for the People were after all, only "mimic Games"; one a peace-puzzle of comic sections and the other a panorama of toy ships...
...angry cries, then loud fervent exclamations rose in the Chamber of Deputies as peppery Socialist Edouard Barth took the rostrum and savagely exposed what he was pleased to call "the nefarious villainies of the French Anti-Alcoholic League...
...volumes recently seized by the Customs agents and during his Christmas holiday pored over improper paragraphs to amass arguments for the retention of censorship (TIME, Jan. 6). His threat to read aloud blush-provoking passages, if necessary, helped to pack the Senate galleries last week. After twelve hours' fervent debate the Senate did reverse its position, did reimpose a modified form of Customs censorship, but without a public smut-reading by Senator Smoot or anyone else. Instead of obscenities, the gallerites heard a long, sprawly, not altogether coherent debate on decency, morals and literature, foreign and domestic...
...fervent minds of the cheering Italian congregation, Pius XI unquestionably appeared at that moment as the dread and visible incarnation of stern St. Peter, girt in the austere scarlet of a bishop to do battle with the Devil...