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...from Fort Belvedere that H. R. H. drove over last week to Windsor Castle and to Fort Belvedere he drove back. Instead of golfing on his 40th birthday he donned overalls, took up a hoe and worked up a sweat among the vegetables of his bachelor garden...
...lives alone at the exclusive Carlton. He spends as much of his time as possible on his seven acres at Yellow Springs, where, emulating Henry Clay, he practices his speeches pacing a flagstone walk and addressing the birds. He is no sportsman. "My golf stick," says he. "is a hoe." Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a dependable party wheelhorse, inoffensive, pleasant, industrious (his critics call him "fussbudgety"), of average intelligence and below-average imagination. As long as the U. S. has partisan government, his type will be needed and appreciated for its untiring loyalty and routine diligence. His term
Muckraking in the Augean stables of U. S. politics was at its height in the day of Theodore Roosevelt, who coined the phrase. But it still goes on and there is always a man with a hoe, a gentleman with a duster or a lady with a new broom to do what by definition is an endless job. Muckraking Katherine Mayo, not content with trying to tidy up one sty, has gone a-raking into other people's barnyards. Her Mother India, a sensational account of conditions among women in India, still rankles in many a Hindu breast. Isles...
...time your article appeared we were launching a campaign to get Chautauqua triumphantly out of its difficulties-and we had a long row to hoe, but are certain of its success. But your article-and there's no denying it was a birdie I-is multiplying our task by six-not to say seven! Somebody here must have muffed it beautifully when asked about Chautauqua's condition. ... If I prepare a truthful statement of the situation, would you wish...
...face of the earth. A warm blanket for a grandmother shaking with cold and fever ($2); sandals for bleeding feet (50?); milk for the little children and the very ill; garden seeds for a leper man so that he may raise his own vegetables-perhaps with a hoe strapped to his stumps of arms; medicines ($5 a year) so that those just developing the dreaded malady may never reach the hopeless mutilated stage; a Christmas dinner of hot meat and vegetables for an entire colony of lepers ($20)-many of whom have had no other amply satisfying meal since last...