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...Last week with a pardon as a Christmas present, President Roosevelt excused Roy Olmstead from the unpaid fine and costs, restored his civil rights. At a press conference last February, the President called forward to his desk James Parks Hornaday, Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis News, and declared: "The nicest and truest thing I can say about you is that you are a gentleman of the Press." The occasion was the 50th anniversary of Hornaday's work as a newspaperman, a tribute to him as dean of Washington newshawks since he went to Washington at the time Roosevelt...
...White, Civil Service Commissioner down in Washington, that not since Andrew Jackson has Civil Service received such a set-back as in the present administration. Mr. Hurley got a job in the Railway Mail Service; Mr. Tague got a "beautiful floral piece". The President always does things in the nicest...
...request an autograph. This time secretive Greta Garbo vanished for good. In Buffalo, Animal Trainer Clyde Beatty was threatened with arrest by the local S. P. C. A. if he did not stop "prodding and beating" his circus lions. Said the S. P. C. A. agent: "Lions are the nicest and bravest animals in the world." Retorted Lion-Scarred Beatty: "He is perfectly welcome to come into the cage with me and pet the kittens if he thinks they are so tame...
...loyal girl friend. When in Paris Interlude, Julie (Madge Evans) gets drunk in a saloon, Cassie (Una Merkel) helps her home. When Julie's boy friend Sam (Otto Kruger) flies off for China, Cassie comforts her. When Sam has been reported dead, Cassie tells Julie's nicest suitor (Robert Young) how best to further his cause. True to cinema type, Cassie talks tough and, has no male associates of her own. That she may get one is indicated at the end of the picture, when Sam comes back wounded and Cassie talks him out of breaking up Julie...
Indulgent parents built the Lampoon building so that Harvard's problem children could have the very nicest playhouse in all Cambridge, with towers and Dutch picture blocks and hidey-holes. They filled the nursery with stuffed goosies, Limpopo crocodiles and other whimsey things. Good children should play "I-Spy-the-Ibis" all by themselves and not go annoying busy grown-ups. If there is any more naughtiness, the funny old birds will be locked up for good in Agassiz Museum with the dead mooses...