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...strains put upon it by different postures and by changes in body bulk. Joints devised for mobility have been re-adapted for stability. Muscles have had violence done to their origins and insertions and have suffered enormous inequalities in the distribution of labor. Viscera have been pushed about hither and yon, hitched up, let down, reversed and inverted. In making a new machine out of an old one, plenty of spare parts have been left to rattle around inside. There are no few evidences of ungifted, amateur tinkering...
...love with a fickle society heiress while his faithful wife and partner goes back to "burleycue." Before Comedian Brown is brought to see the error of his ways he is given opportunity not only to sing and dance but turn a back somersault, take innumerable falls, chase madly hither & yon, utter his famed maniacal yell on numerous occasions and tell in baby talk an interminable story about a " 'little bitsy mousie." To show his dramatic ability, he also folds his great mouth into an expression of infinite sorrow...
...tight spot. A majority may believe that it would be less serious for the U. S. to face the economic upset caused by upholding the gold clauses than to establish a precedent that may in future make all contracts into scraps of paper to be blown hither & thither by any political wind. But if the Court should decide to uphold the gold clauses, the reaction ot the country against the Court would be indeed serious. In the heat of partisanship a Constitutional Amendment might be passed that would vitally impair the Court's usefulness. The Justices were not ignorant...
...resigned. His resignation carries a special implication. Mr. Sanders was the chairman who conducted the campaign to reelect Mr. Hoover in 1932. Previous to that he had been private secretary to President Coolidge. Mr. Sanders, retirement, therefore, is notice that there is no disposition on the part of elements hither to dominant in the party to keep control of the organization. Mr. Sanders' resignation amounts to an announcement of hands off and an open field...
...Illustration, a supplement to L'Illustration which publishes modern French plays and novels, we found the following statement on the title page of a play by Jules Renard: "All rights of publishing, reproduction, translation, adaptation and of presentation by all methods actually known or by any which might be hither-to invented reserved for all countries." This translation lacks, perhaps, the sonority and fullness of the original French; nevertheless, we feel that it gives some conception of the farsightedness of the copyright. We only hope that, in translating, publishing, and representing it we have not laid ourselves open...