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...golf clubs; proceeds to develop the domestic difficulties of this hero. Soon a menace appears in the form of a domineering colonel, to whom the dreamy hero refuses to pay a golf wager because he thinks the Colonel cheated. Actor Craven plays more craftily than he writes. The loudest laugh of the piece greets Mr. Craven's plaintive protest that he did not vilify the Colonel; simply said he was sunk in a ditch...
Alabama's loudest orator, U. S. Senator James Thomas Heflin, last week at Abbeville, Ala., vituperated Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York, the daily press of Alabama and Pope Pius...
...after marrying Alan, gets Jerry back from Dolly on the rebound, helping him terminate a trial ride on the water wagon. Then Jerry's car, "the loudest roar in the Roaring Forties," and too much whiskey, balance her accounts for her. Jerry is not so attractive with a leg cut off. And the lacerations on Gay's lovely little throat are not nearly so costly as the fractures in her reputation, the smear on her soul. She is fairly lucky to find a market for the remains of her "class" in a night club...
Democrats, not knowing what to say, said little. Governor-Candidate Alfred E. Smith of New York said nothing. George E. Brennan, boss Democrat of Illinois, said he could discover no effect on Democratic chances. The loudest gloater, oddly enough, was the majestic New York Times, which said: "When will our dazed friends, the Republican politicians, quit sobbing and sputtering like a child whose china lamb has just been smashed? Their chagrin at the wreck of their plans is intelligible, if somewhat amusing. The pins were all set up, and now they are all knocked down...
...other fellow. . . ." This retort has had the approval of the sophisticated New York World, which said: "The Rotarian is not without his points." And does not President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin write for the Rotarian among other publications?the same Glenn Frank whom that loudest anti-Rotarian toothgnasher, H. L. Mencken, has recommended, for U. S. President...