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...death rate is slightly higher than that for 1921 (11.6 per thousand), which was the lowest rate on record, but it does not seriously interrupt the steady downward trend of the deathrate. If as many persons had died in 1922 as would have under the conditions of 1880, there would have been 800,000 more deaths last year than there actually were...
...noted, the Senate did not pass the customary resolution of thanks to the Vice President at the close of its session. The reason has just become known. Senator Heflin of Alabama threatened to block the resolution because he was annoyed with Mr. Coolidge for having allowed Senator Lodge to interrupt a speech of his on the British debt bill. Spoke Alabama: " Lodge's point of order took me off the floor and Coolidge sustained the point of order, or, to be more exact, he participated in a rape of the rules of the United States Senate." And Massachusetts departed...
...President has kept a purely technical peace which no one ever sought to interrupt, but he has, in doing it, lowered America in the eyes of the world to a point which no civilized Caucasian nation ever reached before. The American government has not one friend among the peoples of the world today, and those who dare to maintain that American ideals are as sound as they ever were can only plead that the present administration does not represent the true state of public opinion in the country. If we are not to stand self-confessed as willing to surrender...
...start from the Square (via Cambridge street) will be made at 8.45. A little less than an hour later the King Philip will leave Commercial Wharf. On arrival at Peddock's Island the program of sports will begin with a hitherto unscheduled wheel-barrow race. Luncheon at 1 will interrupt the athletes, and the departure of the King Philip at 4.45 will give them a chance for a well-earned rest and mild stimulants...
...with the reforming of the bad points of our dear enemy. Ridicule of our enemies has inevitably a sting which is absent from ridicule of ourselves. But it is all meant in good part, as simple fun, and after all, the puns and the really amusing illustrations that interrupt the sarcasm make it, as was intended, innocuous. The man who buys this number of the Lampoon, gets a great deal for his money, in space and in humor...