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?Democratic and Republican newspapers, almost without exception, said that the Smith reception had far surpassed Lindbergh's. The most emotional story was despatched by Robert Barry of the New York Evening World. The Boston Herald contributed a new version of an old jingle:
No place for the man who loves home and normalcy, Hollywood is grist to the mill of the farceur. Van Vechten takes a spineless playwright, lover of normalcy, and pitches the unwilling wretch into a kaleidoscope of temperamental screen-stars, their mamas (chaperones?) and parasitic Spanish nobles, of shrewd Jewish...
*Sufferers from true klangpsychosis not only repeat their favorite words incessantly but jingle them into idiotic rhymes.-ED.
Thus, Prime Minister Raymond Poincare, the great War President of France, puts the last cap on a monumental achievement. When he took office 23 months ago, the franc had lost 9/10 of its pre-War value (5 francs to $1). By soundest generalship, some retrenchments, and chiefly by the sheer...
Salanio, Salarino and Gratiano, ordinarily the Wynmen, Blynken and Nod of the Shakespearian first act, were as different as people really are and as alike as gentlemen's ideas are. Hugh Miller, Alfred Jingle in 'Pickwick", played a lively Gratiano to the giggling Nerissa of Spring Byington.