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Advisory Chairman-Peter Gollet Gerry, the wealthy well-born Harvard-bred hound-riding U. S. Senator from Rhode Island who upset traditional Republican calculations in his state as a young man (1916-he is now 48) and has since continued popular with his state's large labor vote...
...natural associations of the catch phrase thinker with the word "melodrama" are the mustachio and hound dogs, the Tennesseean Montagues and Capulets, and the revolving saw that yearns for the hero's throat. But along Catfish Row, in the negro tenement district of Charleston, murder, knife behind back, walks hand in hand with music. The very name of melodrama was derived of this union. Modern usage of the word had its birth in the musically accompanied plays of the mauve decade, when "Hearts and Flowers," various funeral marches, and "After the Ball" were softly breathed by violins below the stage...
Although the letter of Mr. L. H. Thomas of Van Camp's, Louisville, Ky., is too ridiculous to require comment, perhaps it would be charitable to inform him that "those funny pictures" of gentlemen of "similar appearance" to a "hound," on the covers of recent issues of TIME, have included, among other men of esteem, prestige and accomplishment, portraits of President Coolidge, General Pershing, Ambassador Herrick and Colonel Lindbergh...
...People (1882), wherein the honesty of one man makes him the enemy of ordinary folk; 5) The Wild Duck (1884), a play about a sensitive girl who commits suicide when she learns that she is illegitimate; 6) Rosmersholm (1886) in which a husband and wife and "other woman" hound each other until they all commit suicide...
...thought to discontinue looking at those funny pictures but since the one who makes this has been so consistent and places a hound along with others of similar appearance, such consistency makes me look forward to getting TIME each week...