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...that of a country. Actually, of course, the British genius for muddling through would easily extemporize a solution, nobody much cared what. Also it was pointed out that every election on Prince Edward Island for three decades has been a "landslide," the islanders always rushing pell mell to vote Conservative or Liberal, whichever is the opposite of the way they voted last time...
...small esteem for metal tubes and no stomach whatever for a possible public swing in that direction. Philco bought a full page in the New York Times ($4,500) to launch a counterblast. Recalling an ill-starred experiment with metal tubes in Britain, Philco warned that a "pell mell rush" into metal might also have disastrous consequences here. Points...
...Louisiana's Long and Kentucky's Logan. The "Kingfish" was all over the floor, red-faced, arms waving, shouting, whispering. Cried he: "I am not the only man in the United States who does not understand what this thing is all about. . . . We are being rushed pell-mell to get into this World Court so that Señor Ab Jap or some other something from Japan can pass upon our controversies...
...Victoria Eugenie, his British bride of 28 years ago, a full measure of woe. An anarchist's bomb nearly killed her on her wedding day. She was obliged to attend bullfights which she hated. She could not help thinking most Spaniards outlandish and sinister. Revolution chased her pell-mell out of Spain three years...
...last Congress Dr. Calver's tiny force earned its salt. Most dramatic incident occurred when Representative Edward Everett Eslick dropped dead while addressing the House (TIME, June 27, 1932). Dr. Calver worked vainly to restore him. More successful was he when Representatives James William Collier of Mississippi, Mell G. Underwood of Ohio and William I. Sirovich of New York were taken ill at the Capitol...