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Thoroughly confused, Anti-Imperialist Beals, knowing that U. S. businessmen now own 80% of the rich Cuban sugar lands, obtained only one joker from Mr. Caffery's mouth. "Ultimately," he quoted the Ambassador as saying, "the Cubans may want to buy back the land they need for a healthy economic life...
...found it with Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper. Author Lawrence, no champion of neat endings, left his lovers looking forward to the beginning of their life together. Author d'Orliac takes up the tale where Lawrence dropped it, reshuffles the cards and, by slipping a Gallic joker into the pack, makes the game come out exactly as she wants it. An implicit criticism of Lawrence's visceral philosophy, Lady Chatterley's Second Husband is no jest but a soberly serious attempt to answer a passionate argument...
Radiorator Coughlin. who has been disappointed with the President ever since he failed to Inflate, gave his estimate of the last two years: ''You cannot have a New Deal without a new deck. Somehow or other the cards dealt by the New Deal contained the same joker, the same hidden cards which were found in the old deal. This time, however, not only the aces of high finance were wild, the kings of big industry were also wild. . . . The first two years of the New Deal shall be remembered as two years of compromise . . . two years of endeavoring...
...pygmy man 15 in. tall, a pygmy cow 18 in. high. The Press earnestly began gathering learned speculations on this "cradleland of the human race." But when the backwash of inquiries engulfed the town of Vadnagar, local authorities called the story a hoax, either the work of a practical joker or, as the Associated Press found, "the result of an old Hindu superstition that spreading a false rumor sometimes aids toward solving a domestic problem...
...Budapest, Count Edmond Zichy of aristocratic lineage challenged 13 members of a swank sporting club to duels. Reason: they had expelled his wife. Reason: they had caught her in a game of rummy marking the joker by scraping her hennaed fingernail across...