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...later became Ohio's only three-term governor. In the 1920 presidential campaign he promised ailing Woodrow Wilson: "We are going to be a million percent with you and your administration. That means the League of Nations." But in Warren Gamaliel Harding, able Orator Cox and his running mate, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (a young man he later came to differ with in political philosophy), faced an Ohio publisher whose easygoing ways eminently suited the times. Cox carried only eleven Southern states. Jim Cox vowed never again to seek public office-and in 1945 turned down the offer...
...with Shakespeare. In House Party, four men and four women meet and mate. This puts Author Rowans on a par with Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, apart from which House Party resembles A Comedy of Errors. To the antediluvian Ames mansion at Pruitt's Landing, an "unspoiled" Long Island town, repairs the following partial cast of characters, some Ameses and some not: a superannuated dandy who is chauffeured about in a Hotchkiss landaulet; a Manhattan model; a frustrated young architect who works for Vahan Rabadab Associates ("All Rabadab buildings looked like banks of file cabinets with the drawers...
Stahura, the only junior chosen, was classified as the season's speediest, Hastings, was named "the best all-rounder," Repetto's coordination and Haughey, his battery mate's strategy were praised, while Simourian was chosen "most graceful...
...country. The simplicity of severing marriage ties led inevitably to a further disregard of their importance, and illicit love affairs bloomed on every side. Naturally enough, this interfered considerably with the work of the state, what with intra-factory jealousies and unexpected pregnancies. Country girls, seeking a better mate than the local lout behind the plow, began flocking to the cities. Party workers in the backwoods were instructed to "explain to young women that it is incorrect to seek mates only among urban youth." In the China Youth magazine, a schoolteacher wrote an article entitled "Do Not Make Love...
When he sees that, for all their high spirited freedom, what both the Village girl and his roving, unattached friend desperately want is just what he unwittingly possesses--a loving and faithful mate--he thinks again. The various plights of the other men, one endangering his health to keep his children in school, serve either to egg him on to infidelity or remind hime of his good fortune...