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...roused himself from a night's sleep on the cabin floor, cooked breakfast over a fire in the front yard, shambled unrecognized into the village store and bought some groceries. Snarled the storekeeper: "One dollar and sixty-five cents-and three cents for the sales tax that that goddam Governor Murray put on the poor man's grub." When indignant citizens stormed Little Rock demanding a special session of the Legislature to repeal Arkansas' new 2% sales tax, Governor Junius Marion Futrell fled to Hot Springs, hopped into a steam bath, cried: "It's cooler...
...Spaniards there is something decidedly special about an English Lord. Spanish beggars are apt to address any tourist as "My Lord"; if that fails, as "My God"; and finally, if they get no coppers, as "Rosbiff Goddam!" Last week shaggy old Premier Alejandro Lerroux, who put down the proletarian revolt by having over 3,000 rebels shot, felt that the least he could do was to receive Lord Listowel & Commission in his private rooms at the Cortes. Spanish blood was up, Spanish honor at stake. Same afternoon, in the Cortes, Spain's No. 1 Catholic politician, Fascist...
...Yale undergraduate would rather be locked in an igloo for the winter with a Cantab than a Princetonian for all his smoothness (a term which, by the way, has lost some of its former snap). He might not understand the "indifference" of the Harvard man, but he would get goddam sick and tired of hearing about the nifty third sax in Cab Casa Loma's orchestra as set forth by the Tiger...
Thoroughbred (by Doty Hobart; Theodore Hammerstein and Denis Du For, producers) presents Florence Reed, far from her Mother Goddam of the Shanghai Gesture, as the hard-riding, bawling matriarch of an aristocratic family which owns a racehorse. It develops that her children were fathered by the butler and that the horse has a bar sinister too. But through a rain of horsey talk it seems that purity of race is not everything. The son fends off a designing chorus girl. The daughter finds here true love. The horse winds the Futurity at Belmont Park (offstage), saves the family fortunes...
...never driven across the continent, able to stop where he wanted, look twice at what he saw. Friends wanted to give him a send-off banquet but he, though he loves good food and good friends, demurred. He did not want "to sit around and hear a lot of goddam flattery. Because. I'm not goin', I'm comin'!" Onetime associate of Adman Barron Collier, Publisher Swasey joined the Hearst organization on New Year's Day 1919 by taking charge (at no salary) of the' Los Angeles Examiner which was then suffering a boycott...