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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unquestionably dashing and sleek, with impeccably upturned "Kaiser" mustachios. He proclaims himself in favor of "complete religious toleration," and is on good terms with many U. S. citizens who have financial interests in Mexico. Thus he should poll a large Roman Catholic vote and knows where to find campaign funds...
Bones. Old bones, so old that they have turned to stone, excite the lay imagination more quickly than anything else the diggers find. Students of Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) saw a bony protuberance exposed by a landslide on the shale cliffs of Los Angeles Harbor last spring. They picked and pried it loose, a bone five feet long, weighing 55 pounds, encrusted with marine fossils. What was it? wondered gaping natives. The femur (thigh bone), said Pomona professors, of a giant elephant that roamed California 20,000 years ago when the rim of the Pacific lay much higher inland...
...centre of the Dreyfus Case. This case in many ways paralleled the Sacco-Vanzetti case, though to the present generation of U. S. newspaper readers it is hardly more than a name. Many who read the announcement of Dreyfus' visit were surprised to find that the hero of the Dreyfus Case was still alive and active...
Flood aftermath last week centered about two topics-Herbert C. Hoover and special session. Secretary Hoover appeared generally regarded, in the flooded district, as the "hero" of the flood; in Chicago, however, he was not so highly considered. Meanwhile the Special Session (to consider flood problems) continued to find many supporters, though to the cynical minded it took on the aspect of a tail to the tax-reduction kite...
Since many people do find Sir Harry Lauder's performances wholly or in part distasteful, what are his obnoxious points? Partial list: 1) His habit of performing character sketches between his songs in which the "character" is supposed to be, for example, an idiot boy who constantly wipes his nose with gusto on a homespun sleeve; 2) Sir Harry's habit of "forcing" new songs written by himself (and for sale in the lobby) on an audience which gives vocal and unmistakable signs that it wants chiefly his "old favorites"; 3) the extreme conceit and cocksureness with which Sir Harry...