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...Democrat, he has shown an individual talent for legislation. His political and economic theories cause him to swing naturally into line with the Norris-La Follette Insurgent faction of the Senate G. O. P. He exhibits no capability as a minority party leader. His votes are generally independent, sometimes freakish (he was the only Democrat to vote against the special session adjournment). A good partisan, he flays the Old Guard and what he calls G. O. P. "imperialism" so vigorously that many a conservative mistakes him for a radical. In industry and intelligence he is above the Senate average...
Producers ignore Equity. They feel that Hollywood's night labor and freakish habits are elements in a new industry which Equity cannot be expected to understand, which have been justified by that industry's prosperity. Director Lionel Barrymore likened Equity's campaign to a major operation on a child...
...days at Roosevelt Field, set out for an interview. He reminded the Colonel of the good old days when he liked to pose and asked for just one picture of the Hero's wife, still out of sight below. But the Hero, who, according to Mr. Dolan,* smiled his "freakish, vaudeville smile," had "nothing...
Modernist furniture and decor is replete with berserk zigzagging, nightmare shapes and gaudiness. These architects, however, with the taste bred of academic training, create in a dulcet and tempered mood. The results are fresh without being freakish. But, due to the cost of materials and the scarcity of fine modernist designers, they are also expensive...
...fancies" of the King-Emperor include, according to Tailor and Cutter: 1) "black and tan boots"; 2) "turn-back cuffs to overcoats"; 3) "double-breasted waistcoats." . . . "Yet there is no mark of overdressing or nibbling at exotic or freakish modes...