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...opening scene discloses Guy Button seated amongst the roaring denizens of the "Mantic" barroom, San Francisco's gaudiest. Even through this smoky atmosphere, Button sees his destiny writ large, and he decides to jump ship, revealing a rather dubious moral resiliency as he double-sells his boots and oil-skins to two less ambitious purchasers. Of a sudden the swearing and noise of glasses are awed to silence by the flouncing entrance of Adah Menken, a beautiful Jewish actress. Impressed by this lady, Button snatches her shawl, leaps back, and shouts ". . . Now, I'm part...
...Hence Mr. Cutting traded in his personal Progressive following for the Old Guard Republican nomination. In Congress: In the Senate Bronson Cutting promptly identified himself with the Progressives. His first windmill was the ''dirty book" provision tacked onto the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. In one of the gaudiest shows ever staged on Capitol Hill he attacked the provision with such guile and learning that even Mormon Reed Smoot was finally reduced to apoplectic silence. Result: an amendment giving suspected foreign books the benefit of court trial. In the same year he led the fight which passed, over President...
Carnera last week stuffed his Gargantuan frame into a new uniform, the gaudiest permitted a member of the Fascist militia, and took plane to Rome. For some reason, probably because it had never seen an important prizefight, Rome was wildly excited. Nobody seriously expected much of Uzcudun, the 34-year-old Basque woodchopper whom Carnera had defeated three years ago. Carnera received no money, was merely attempting to strengthen his standing in Italy. But, with a straight face, the New York Times correspondent quoted Carnera...
...looks like an Old-Testament-bearded Spanish Jew, is a great fixer. He is said to have poisoned his way to the throne (TIME, Oct. 8, 1928). As he tyrannically and ably rules his hot-blood-swilling Abyssinians (meaning "mixed peoples") he is careful to keep always on his gaudiest full-dress behavior toward the Occident. By way of reminding Europe of his highly Biblical pedigree he sent Empress Waizeru Menen to the Holy Land last week to visit its chief Christian shrines...
...written by Author Powys, the story of Hudson's voyages-these two to the U. S. and two earlier ones to the north of Europe-is an intimate and elaborate chronicle. All the familiar details of life that precede and accompany the gaudiest adventures, like the supplies with which a captain fills the hold of his ship before a long voyage, are carefully inserted by Author Powys. He tells how an Indian visited the Half-Moon above Manhattan, how the Indian stole a shirt out of the mate's cabin, and how the mate shot him dead...