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...opposition everrede resistance by a vote of 44 to 43. McCarran and other disciples of Mr. Green, of the American Federation of Labor, fathered the measure, blinded by a dogmatic adherence to the one high-wage scale for all workers. The buffoon from Louisiana, too tolerantly dismissed as a fool, whipped wavering Senators into line, from a much-heralded desire to "do anything" to thwart the administration. Republicans, acting with usual partisan tactics, voted almost as a block for the amendment. The appalling fact is that none of the opposition cliques knows how rapidly and determinedly it is driving toward...
...were so loyal, so kind in telling me before others did--no deceit. And yet it was so tenderly conveyed. Then how can I be other than honest. Must I get conventionally drunk and hypocritically paint the town? My friends tell me I'm a fool. Where's your pride, they say. It's lost in abject adoration that will last forever...
...vote on an equal basis with his intelligent neighbor (if any), on any and all of the complex problems put before them. The result is that candidates for office are obliged, if they hope to be elected, to appeal to the moronic riff raff with all kinds of fool schemes and promises. . . . T. N. WALTON...
Composer Friml's score has charm equal to anything he has done in the 22 years which have passed since he wrote High Jinks. "Sweet Fool" is a ballad worthy of place among modern Schmalzmusik. But the libretto with its creaky structure belongs to the bygone era of celluloid collars and beehive police helmets. In surrendering her role to Natalie Hall, Mme Jeritza escaped being a Venetian noblewoman of 1934 who thinks better of spurning a commoner when, in a flashback, she impersonates her own fisher maiden ancestor in 1770 wooing and winning the Duke of Orsano. She also...
...from a state of revolutionary chaos and was now without question the leading power on the continent of Europe. Twice the Emperor had led the people into war, both times successfully. Meanwhile a legend had grown up around him. He was considered variously as a Mephistopheles, a weakling, a fool, and an iron man. Now, in 1870 the time had arrived to test the legend. Prepared "to the last gaiter button," the famous French army, victors of Sebastopol and Solforino, awaited the coming of the Prussians...