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...current Harper's bear the stamp of authenticity. She finds the masculine half of mankind exceedingly dilatory and shortsighted, consistent only in its love of a fight. She finds the pugnacious instinct in politicians so ingrained that every political operation of form or fancy must run the gamut of battle. When women, writes Mrs. Blair, hold a convention, they allot to each delegate an equal number of complimentary tickets, but when men convene politically, they pass through the throes of civil combat to appoint a ticket committee favorable to one side or another...
Having run the gamut of Count Craven's listless love, the United States Immigration officials, and Earl Carroll's bathtub parties, the Countess Cathcart could hardly be expected to desert the newspapers for the home. After a silence of almost two weeks she has cast aside her protective veil and issues forth a novelist, full-grown, from Scandal's forehead...
...with protecting official wrongdoing, most senators have heretofore voted for investigations when irregularity was hinted at. Such an attitude has given the members of the vast bureaucracy, which is the executive arm of the government, a healthy respect for efficiency. Under the Republican plan, proposed investigations must run the gamut of the Committees concerned before being referred to the Senate. Although Senators need not follow the committee recommendation, the temptation exists to use this report as an excuse for quashing an unpleasant inquiry...
...false Billy whom Margaret loves after Dion is dead, and the third Billy, who has been amassing wealth during the real Billy's period of despair, the players are provided with masks, which they clap on and whisk off as their personalities exchange ascendancy. Productive of a wide gamut of emotions and effective for about half of the 13 scenes, this trickery becomes a dizzying harlequinade at the last. Leona Hogarth (Margaret) and William Harrigan (Billy Brown) cope very successfully with their strenuous parts, both masked and unmasked. Anne Shoemaker is bravely understanding in the all but unstageable mask...
...with the game as originally played at Harvard and in England in my account of the history of football in the Harvard H' Book, but I was requested to cut all this out on the ground, although it was said to be admittedly true, that football was running the gamut of sufficiently severe criticism, and not to incite it further; and so, not to be 'nasty...