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...successful election; a majority (on paper) of 16 Republican votes in the Senate; a Democratic opposition lacking a definite program; a new President, potent with the prestige of undistributed patronage. But even with these advantages Leader Watson, thought many of his fellow Republicans last week, made a poor fist of steering the Senate. Perhaps Leader Watson's troublesome week was partly due to the heat. In the Senate the temperature rose close to 100° F. In the House it was a comfortable 70° F. The House has a modern cooling system, the Senate...
...Laborite two years ago "To Get Action," the statesman who once said of H. G. Wells, "the old gentleman has gone gaga," the British Laborite party has no more conspicuous member. Last week as plump Commander Kenworthy was preparing for a hotly contested general election, his mother had a fist fight with her landlady...
...yellow frock, the Princess Elizabeth passed her third birthday. She does not know that she is but three removes from the Throne; in fact she has only very recently discovered that she is a "P'incess." It is barely a fortnight ago that she knocked with chubby fist upon a door, and when her mother called "Who's there?" answered in an important little voice, "Lilybet, the P'incess." "Lilybet's" mother, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, is herself only two removes from becoming "Queen Elizabeth"-which title is constantly and teasingly applied...
...wife, a large, strapping woman." He pushed her aside, dodged her chauffeur, one William Kiefer (named as co-respondent in Mr. Revell's suit for divorce) and sprinted. Near 5th Avenue a burly man caught and held him. Mrs. Revell caught up and renewed her attack with nail, fist, tooth, and then had Mr. Revell arrested for assault. Said he: "The incident was a stunt on the part of my wife to embarrass me and carry out her threat to not only ruin my reputation but break...
Clearly the Iron Man from across the Rhine was addressing himself, last week, chiefly to the men from across the Atlantic, and especially to one of them whose strong fist is invariably mantled in a metaphorical Velvet Glove-John Pierpont Morgan...