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...that the Laborites ought to cooperate in redrafting the bill, a suggestion which so enraged Mr. Clynes that he uttered an able if unconscious "bull." Cried he: "Asking the Opposition to cooperate with the Government is like asking burglars to cooperate with the police!" Chuckled delighted Conservatives: "Haw! By Jove . . . Burglars! Clynes calls his people burglars. . . ." Goaded, Mr. Clynes finally roared that the proceedings were "a Parliamentary farce," and strode from the House, followed by all Laborite M. P.'s. In their absence cloture was rushed through. Sober reflection caused Mr. Clynes to realize that he had overplayed drama...
...entered the portal of old Appleton he so loved, he heard the swish of a gown and a low growl. Appleby gave the familiar spaniel a playful kick in the ribs and turned around to face the front of Jove himself...
...executed by Panaeus, nephew and assistant of Phidias. Scholars have hinted that the figure owed its fame to these entertaining adornments, but Roman writers commented on the power, at once placid and stern, a sort of deep pagan content, that lived in the head. Here was no irritable Roman Jove, waiting at the least vexation to scatter thunderbolts in all directions like sparklers, but a Grecian gentleman, portentous as a hill, poised serenely as a wave...
...Venus. As "the 2,680th? anniversary of Rome "dawned," the dais was spread with draperies of imperial red. Upon it were set gilded crowns and other trophies won in the wars of ancient Rome. Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud. Jove-like, he frowned upon the suffocating throngs. Awed, they were silent...
...shall not ask you to cancel my subscription, as others have done, because TIME gives me a rapid and useful survey of world news each week, but, by Jove! you do make it hard to read...