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President-elect Carias meanwhile had won the hand of his longtime sweetheart. who because his social position was inferior to hers refused to marry him until the Presidency was within his grasp. On Feb. 1 she will move their family into the Presidential Palace, the reception room of which is furnished with a score of wicker chairs and a four-poster...
...more antique than those of any other pure-bred creature. Gamecocks would rather fight than breed or eat. They are trained as carefully as pugilists. First they chase barnyard hens to acquire morale. Wearing steel gaffs-corked except at the tip-they become accustomed to weapons by fighting inferior opponents. They strengthen their leg muscles on treadmills, sweat off fat in a straw box, have their heads shampooed by trainers. Two to three weeks before fighting they spar in spurs covered with leather rolls. Oldtime English trainers fed their fowl a diet of seeds, plants, bark and roots, washed down...
...criticism of Mr. Harris's argument can be made where they are most vital: in the field of modern literature. His assertion that the chief values of modern civilization, science, democracy, and so on, are adequate for tragedy of serious proportion goes shipwreck not only because those values are inferior in kind to the social values of the Greeks, of Dante, and of the Renaissance, but also because they are questioned by us at an unparalleled degree, especially by contemporary writers. Ibsen did not, as Mr. Harris think, write "Ghosts," or "Hedda Gabler," on the basis of the social values...
Most of the new governors were oldtime politicians past middle age who had worked up through inferior jobs to the top of the state pile. Most of them by birth and breeding were close to the plain people who had elected them. Most of them, as "outs" fighting "ins" had promised a "new deal" in the campaign. Every last one of them in their inaugural addresses or first legislative messages hammered hard on a common theme: Economy-economy-economy to save their states from bankruptcy...
...best U. S. price of $25.86. Certain grades of European steel are so cheap that even if all labor cost was eliminated, U. S. steel mills could not compete, etc., etc., etc. The results, said Mr. Blythe, are closed factories and unemployment. Furthermore, he insisted, the products are of inferior quality...