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...such a boisterously ironic tone, well calculated to soothe skeptics into pleased attention, does "Unofficial Observer" launch his Who's Who of the New Deal. Plain citizens will be impressed by his breezy air of impartiality and impatient candor. But this hard-boiled patter thinly cloaks an earnest enthusiasm for the Administration and most of its works. More effective as propaganda for the New Deal than would be the paean of a paid publicity man, The New Dealers well deserves the Order of the Blue Eagle, first class...
...Pitter-patter little toes, that's the way the dancer goes; skillful hands and manners sleek--broken hearts and droll bezique." So twitters and is twitted, and Hollywood dissembles another vapidity as young as the world, trotting out the freshly dusted effigies of Eros as it cheers the hero on to freedom from the thralldom of his conceit...
...clock guns boomed in the distance, followed by the dull patter of muffled drums.* A detachment of mounted police in blue capes and white helmets led the procession. Then came the Guides, Belgium's crack infantry regiment, with little tassels dangling from their caps. British sailors followed, and behind them a dismounted detachment of the 5th Inniskilling Dragoons, the British regiment of which Albert was Colonel-in-Chief. French troops preceded the Paris post of the American Legion. The flags of the Belgian Army formed a quilt of fluttering black, yellow and red against the grey sky. Every regiment...
...president of Curtiss-Wright Corp. One day last week big, amiable "Charley" Lawrance stood up on a rostrum of a bleak lecture hall at Manhattan's Columbia University. Gravely he drawled from a typewritten sheet: ". . . Cash on hand, $875.06. . . . Accounts receivable . . . 80?. . . . Net worth. $6,077.76." Amid a patter of applause Mr. Lawrance sat down...
...Guardsman has stood patter in the House through the years than Bert Snell. Yet even he, last week, seemed infected with a new political spirit. Said he: "The whole country, the whole world is leaning more & more toward Liberalism. It is the popular acclaim. Political parties will yield to it for support. We, who want to continue the form of government that was established here 160 years ago, realize the drift. But we do not want this country swept into outright Socialism. We do not want our present institutions wiped out!" Preparations for the House session began weeks...