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...three tears Critic Evans shed were crocodile tears. After all he had kept his job, nay, got a better one. Many of the funnymen who have been engaged the last few years in making Life comical were looking for new markets for their quips and quiddities. Among them was Robert Sherwood himself, who, in addition to reviewing the movies, had been editor of the magazine for four years, associate editor for four years before that...
...principal export, nay the mainstay of Ecuador's economic existence, is cacao (the seeds of which provide cocoa and chocolate), but lately this crop has declined, causing great economic distress. To speak plainly, Ecuador is the most insignificant and poorest of the South American republics. She is supreme only in her production of the finest toquilla-the straw from which so-called Panama hats are woven...
Sued for Divorce. Clare A. Briggs, famed Manhattan cartoonist (When, a Feller Needs a Friend, Skin-nay, Mr. & Mrs.); by Mrs. Ruth Owen Briggs of New Rochelle...
...Navy admits, nay protests, that it is not the world's greatest. In point, that is, of size, though never of spirit. Last week, on the heels of President Coolidge's unminced reiteration of his country's intention to look out from now on for its own interests, naval and financial, the Navy Department proclaimed its intention: "To create, maintain and operate a navy second to none, and in conformity with the ratios established by the Washington conference...
...FINEST AMERICAN GRAND OPERA RECORDING ISSUED THIS YEAR is Lawrence Tibbetts assisted by the Metropolitan Opera Chorus singing 'Caesar, Great Wert Thou" and "Nay, Maccus, Lay Him Down" from KING'S HENCHMAN...