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...Sears' eulogy of the slain Indian Metacom (King Philip): "Metacom--mighty warrior!--mighty patriot!--they could speak sneeringly of him now that he was lying dead in the mud, lie at whose name they had quailed when life was vibrant in him. They drag that kingly form through the mire and buffet it as nothing now but an old piece of clay! . . . . Where was that 'Great Cause' now? Right before them, sunk in the mud, so they would have answered. But how little they knew!" After all, how could they have known that Miss Sears would resurrect...
...York's police. He hotly described the Tammany administration as "a damnable pack of administrative bloodhounds, polluted harpies, and a lying, perjured, rum-soaked, libidinous lot." When he failed either to substantiate or retract his charges, a grand jury denounced him for "dragging New York into the mire and wiping his feet on it." He determined to collect proof of his charges personally. Disguised in checked black & white trousers, red flannel tie and slouch hat, as a rich Westerner eager to see New York, he went at night into brothels and Chinese opium dens, consorted with gamblers, crooks...
...Press. Last week President-elect Roosevelt was apparently determined to keep his hands off the 72nd Congress as it sank deeper and deeper into the mire of legislative futility. He had tried to influence its doings by remote control, only to set off fresh squabbles within his own party and draw a round of criticism in the Press. As President-elect, he found he could not enforce his authority on Congress until he knew what he wanted and what he wanted he had not yet made up his mind...
...handsome, grey-haired American who is staying at the Savoy Hotel, London, with his smart wife and charming daughter?well, his foundations may easily be knee-deep in the mire of the underworld. What is more, he may be only vaguely aware that this really matters. . . . King Crime is enthroned, and his influence extends over the whole vast country, but checking very abruptly at the Canadian border and not flowing over even into Mexico. ... A criminal army of 1,000,000 persons is operating in the United States and 25,000 gangsters alone have died by gunfire since Prohibition came...
Works of the following artists will be shown: Pierre Roy, Chirico, Picasso, Coetean, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Masson, Mire, and Viollier...