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...matter of war debts this certainly implies a change in public opinion. Evidently there is no longer a continuous hue and cry for the eye for eye and ducat for ducat of a less understanding past. The Italian government has been allowed to make terms of a lenient kind...
...March 2, 1925). In granting him a visa the State Department extorted from him a promise that he would make no political speeches, since he was believed to be a Communist. He arrived in the U. S. in January, and after a time his pledge transpired and a great hue and cry arose over his "gagging." In April he and the Countess left, going home by way of Canada. Once over the Canadian border he said all he had to say and got all the publicity he could desire...
Tinged with Crimson as such a record is, its closing chapters show a much greener hue. Two of the four Dartmouth victories have been scored in the past two years, and in the three games that have been played between the two Universities since the resumption of play after the ten year split that began in 1912, the Crimson can boast but one green scalp, that from the tomahawk of Owen in 1922. Both verdicts since then have gone to the invaders...
...matter of fact the hue and cry over a "bread trust" has fallen rather flat, despite Mr. Manly's | vigorous assertions. A huge number of U. S. housewives still bake their own bread, and this will always be a ready alternative to buying of an extortionate "bread trust...
...Manhattan, arrived a boat carrying 129 enthusiastic recruits for the Spanish Foreign Legion of every hue and numerous nationalities. The sight of the Statue of Liberty imbued them with a mad desire to see America. The captain of the ship forbade them to go ashore. As answer, they mutinied. Fists, feet, clubs, chairs, crockery were used. One man drew a knife, was promptly bumped on the head with a club. Eventually police restored order and the ship sailed for Spain...