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This year, however, promises better things. Last Friday an informal gathering of House committee members came to tentative conclusions which at least insure against having more than two houses in festive mood at any one time. A general attitude of reasonable cooperation seems to have been substituted for gimlet-eyed jealousy...
...fear Premier Blum finally announced that, although French police would not arrest occupiers of factories, they would suppress any disorder in the streets. That night jumpy Socialist Salengro, Minister of Interior, called to Paris steel-helmeted gardes mobiles with rifles in their hands, bade them keep gimlet eyes on his own Socialist followers and the Communists in the radical "Red Ring" districts around Paris...
...Ashenden is not the only new cinema personage produced by Secret Agent. The picture also affords U. S. audiences a glimpse of the young actor who is currently London's favorite Hamlet. An elegantly slim young man upon whose emaciated face a formidable nose between gimlet eyes suggests the front of a streamlined car, John Gielgud is the 32-year-old great-nephew of the late great Ellen Terry. A product of Westminster, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and several years of British stock, he made his reputation in successive appearances as Romeo, Hamlet and King Lear at London...
Said Henry Ford: "Me a candidate for the Presidency? I wouldn't have it!" Said Publisher Bernarr Adolphus MacFadden (Physical Culture, True Stories, True Romances}: "If the nomination should come to me, it is an honor no American could afford to refuse. . . ." Said General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler: "Give me $5,000,000 and I'll elect a Chinaman President...
...Artist Beale, in humorous vein, would confect such a series as The First Auto (see cut), in which a swank couple in duster and goggles buy a two-cylinder Pope-Hartford, take to the open road, encounter a thunderstorm, suffer a breakdown (which they attempt to mend with a gimlet and a hatchet), and finally drive on into a sentimental rainbow. More rough & tumble were Beale's ideas of Mrs. Casey's goat which butted a respectable Philadelphian into a watering trough or Uncle Rastus and His Mule. Literature particularly attracted the Professor. He made illustrations for such...