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...Accuse." John had gone his full length, knowing to a hair what it would be. As he paced his 30-ft.-long office he could look back on his campaign with gleeful satisfaction. Everything had worked out as he had planned...
...Country's Good? In the cloakrooms conservative Democrats talked darkly of expelling Hook from the House; Hookmen suggested the same for Rabble-Rouser Rankin. Gleeful Republicans called it "a Democratic fight" and dealt themselves out. The peacemakers' suggestion was an apology from both contestants. The next day Hook did apologize-for three minutes. Rankin did not. He made a statement "that you may know exactly how I feel. . . . I was not responsible for what occurred yesterday...
...Mayor declared that, as an auctioneer, Goldberg was "unethical, tyrannical and unfair . . . and to say the least stupid and arrogant." He was also, grimaced The Hat, a distributor of toilet seats. To punctuate his testimony, Witness LaGuardia had shrilly mimicked an auctioneer's babble, yelling an occasional, gleeful "sold!" But Auctioneer Goldberg, who heard all this and more, too, had stubbornly refused to wilt...
Reading Matter. But Edwards found it impossible to give up without one last cute touch.* He cut New York off the program and took a nation of listeners into his gleeful confidence...
...mildewed objects, corniced walnut wardrobes, marble-topped bureaus-some 10,000 numbered items, stacked in the halls, standing in the serried, airless bedrooms. A dozen garlanded chinaware cuspidors clustered beside a bundle of lace curtains. Metal Indians and painted washstands stood on the vast drawing-room floor, while a gleeful Saratoga schoolboy banged at a bandy-legged grand piano. Love's Tribute and Love's Stratagem leaned in steel engraving against a parlor wall. There were objects nobody could explain, such as a waisthigh, samovar-like receptacle of tarnished silverplate sporting an impudent spiggot. There were even sales...