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...faintly suggestive of superior indifference, "YOU went to Yale? My, my, I am not sure if that is an insult to you or one to Yale!" His cousin was biting his lip to make his retort sharper when the Vagabond spoke: "Gentlemen, I must stop here a minute to fetch my girl...
...satin stock and who prefers char ladies and costermongers for models, made headlines at the Academy with a portrait of a fat man playing a cornet. Quick to repeat a good thing, he sent two similar portraits to this year's Burlington House. Best was Brother Fetch, a London commissionaire in full regalia of the Order of Buffaloes, elegantly curling his buffalo horn mustachios and elegantly grasping a white kid glove and a pint of bitters in his right hand...
...cold shoulder near the Franco-Swiss frontier. Weighing up to 200 Ib. in maturity, the St. Bernard dogs are noted for great strength, docility, intelligence, and an expression of almost idiotic benignity. From puppyhood, the dogs are taught to drag unconscious travelers as far as they can, then run & fetch the monks from the hospice. In times past the clogs actually carried around their necks the pictorially famed little kegs of brandy. Most illustrious of these lifesavers was Barry, who died while trying for his 41st rescue, was memorialized in bronze at the monastery...
Heckles is heckling us." Congressional misery took a turn for the worse when the Eccles warning was seconded a few days later by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Secretary of Commerce Roper. Pointing out that the South was now planting cotton under the "dangerous delusion" that the staple would fetch 20? per Ib. by next autumn (price last week: 14?), Secretary Wallace declared: "I think very definitely that the Government does not have sufficient powers now to effectively mitigate the wide swings of the business cycle." Bumbled Secretary Roper: "We must not let our optimism cloud vision and obscure danger...
Last week the President of Mexico General Lazaro Cardenas, sent a luxurious special railway car, El Hidalgo ("The Nobleman"), to fetch Comrade Trotsky from the seacoast to the 7,000-ft. high plateau on which stands Mexico City, Lest anyone do the Great Exile a mischief El Hidalgo stopped some miles outside the capital and Mr. & Mrs. Trotsky, with six Mexican detectives permanently assigned to them, alighted to finish their journey by motor car.* This whisked them to the spacious suburban residence of fat and smoldering Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, an ardent Trotskyist, friend of President Cardenas, and casher...