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...debate on the election was along party lines. Mr. Cosgrave was the only nominee. Eamon De Valera insisted upon speaking Gaelic, which only 10% of the Dail understands; but his henchman, Sean Thomas O'Kelley, indulged in some acrid diatribes at the expense of Mr. Cosgrave and his followers, whom he dubbed renegade Irishmen ruling Ireland in the interests of Britain...
When Deems Taylor resigned as music critic of the New York World to compose the first really successful U. S. opera, The King's Henchman, he lifted his keen, stocky self from a platform of newspaper authority to a pinnacle of international fame. Ordinarily, the fortunates who are able to take such a stride, seldom retrace their steps. But, according to Mr. Taylor, "newspaper work is like drink. The only way for some to quit is to have left it alone in the first place." So he accepted the position of editor of Musical America, and introduced his regime last...
...Lord's Henchman...
...recent reappointment of Haines, henchman of the Anti-Saloon League, to the direction of Prohibition enforcement in the United States seems to have been a piece of the rankest and most craven political expediency. It was contrary to the advice of General Andrews; it was contrary to the wishes of the cabinet members who had seen Haines at work; it was in all probability decidedly against the desires of the president himself. It means that the administration has placed itself partially under the control of a not too savoury organization. It is proof positive that a partisan organization with sufficient...
Which does not show that the undersigned has read "The King's Henchman" with due reverence or he'd have included the lapidary line, "I could do mousily by a crumb of cheese." There are already two schools former and formidable in re the quoted line. One cannot but believe that Miss Millay intended "mousily" to express classic restraint. The other answers that on the contrary "mousily" show a fervid romanticism, for was not "mousily" used by Ooblinskingdorften in his Critique des Souris in which he quaintly puts it. "I under the cheeses will but now be most droneen...