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...steaming jungle of man's origin. Predominant were the lowest of political vegetables?the common or garden delegates with no thought or power but to vote as instructed by the folks at home or the bosses in the hothouse. Planted among them were some of society's finest flowers???Byrds from Virginia, Maryland's Ritchie, New York's Davis. Like Irish potatoes and more noxious growths were the city delegations?Tammany's full-blown ward heelers, micks from Brooklyn and Boston, hybrids from Chicago under the leadership of Mayor Anton J. Cermak, lusty bumpkins from Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana...
...next scene was at the Pan American Building, whither 4,000 guests had been bidden to the reception. About half the number came. The rooms were bowers of flowers???pink hydrangeas, pink roses, larkspur, peonies, ferns, spruce. Disjecta membra of the Marine Band, in three sections of the building, played the wedding march from Tannhauser, as the bride and bridegroom entered and crossed the Aztec Garden and passed the reflecting pool on a carpet of scarlet velvet...
...Republican Tariff. "Let's see what the people are to get tax-free under your bill. First, you are going to let bones come in free, and Brazilian pebbles. Then, bristles, if they are crude, cuttlefish bone, dry insects, stems of vegetables and flowers???I don't understand how they escaped. Birds' eggs and fish eggs, free. Fish skins, fossils, dragon's blood. Horsehair, hoops, old junk. If it's new junk it can't come in free. I don't know whether you let loaded dice in free, but you are giving the American people loaded dice in this...
...PEDLAR'S PACK?Rowland Kenney ?Seltzer ($2.00). Despite its troubadour-like title, this is no pretty-gypsy tale of wanderings amid the birds and flowers???never think it. It moves with elaborate unconcern through the adventures of British navyies, dockyard workers, murderers, bums, nippers and bad beer. It is a forthright specimen of sturdy naturalism?if by that is meant that when differences arise with one's fellows the obvious thing to do is to tap the offender over the head with an iron stave instead of becoming involved in pages of metaphysical argument. There is such a breezy...
DUBLIN DAYS?L. A. G. Strong? Boni and Liveright ($1.25). A small and pleasant posy of Irish herbs and flowers???poems lacking the conventional oh-so-damn-Gaelic concern with the Sidhe, the Bear without Bristles. Uncle White Seagull and the rest of the melancholy paraphernalia of minor Irish bards. It is evident that the author has read James Stephens, but he has his own individual way of speaking, clear, fresh and cool as the sound of a country brook. Poems for even a reviewer to keep and reread...
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