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...shows Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy behaving foolishly as members of an idiotic secret order. Fat supercilious Hardy sneaks off to the Chicago convention of the Sons of the Desert by telling his wife (Mae Busch) he is going to Honolulu for his nerves. Laurel, scratching his whisk-broom forelock, accompanies him. On their return, there is confusion because the steamer from Honolulu, on which their wives expected them, has been wrecked. Laurel & Hardy cope with the situation ignominiously, Hardy with a feeble lie, Laurel with a blubbering confession...
...from his seat rose peppery Opposition Leader Cosgrave. He cried bitterly. "You began the civil war-we ended it!" Through the mind of every Dail member echoed the civil war's whole story of murder and treachery, still potent to shake Irishmen with dismay. Loudly, tossing his scraggly forelock, de Valera shouted above the murmuring. "We are ending it here today, thank God!" And a storm of applause and relief swept the Irishmen of the Dail. -He can declare it any time he likes without fear of British reprisals but he cannot afford to without the Northern. Protestant...
...like to take you by the forelock. I was naturally pleased that one of my portraits, which Mr. Jewell, the art critic, had reproduced in the New York Times, had aroused your interest...
...congressional medals. Last month he defended his right to the second one by loudly protesting aspersions cast by the Haitian Minister to the U. S. (TIME, May 4). Last week, the State Department hav-ing accepted the Haitian Minister's equivocal apology, General Butler took time by the forelock and refreshed the country's memory of how he won his first medal. His immediate audience was a group of grocers assembled in the same Philadelphia Elks' Club where General Butler was cut off the air for broadcasting the word "hell" while talking about his second medal-winning...
...such a definite appeal to me. The question is such a difficult one and requires so much repetition of facts in order to educate the public that the service which you have rendered cannot, I think, be overestimated. It is another instance where TIME has caught itself by the forelock...