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...Boise, Idaho, hometown of bearlike Senator Borah, he indulged in one of the most violent utterances of the campaign. Marking the difference between Borah the intellectually upright Senator and Borah the stump orator, Robinson cried: "The lone eagle abruptly ends his flight toward heavenly Utopia and swoops to perch himself on the filthy boughs with vultures...
Pointing with pride at prosperity, viewing Tammany with alarm, the G. O. P. of New York State went into convention at Syracuse to choose men to help dislodge the Brown Derby from its native perch...
...upon all continents-since I. T. & T. stockholders at their meeting in Baltimore last week approved the long planned consolidation with the Mackay Companies (TIME, April 2)-birds may perch on I. T. & T. land wires. Now, under all the seas, along the lead-bound cables of the I. T. & T. fishes may snip and gulp their food of slimy algae, dainty shell fish. The International Telephone & Telegraph Co. is ubiquitous by telegraph, cable, telephone, wireless, radio...
...eyes. When the blue card flashed, Old Lady gazed at it in polite boredom and went on quietly with her toilet. They couldn't fool her. But when the blue card disappeared and the red card showed, Old Lady's eyes gleamed. She swung herself from her perch, rushed down the ladder with unladylike haste and made for the food box in the corner...
...dormitory with his efforts to master the war whoop of a Dartmouth Indian on the march, so that he might be polite when he greets his New Hampshire friends. And his spirit is so buoyant that he expects to get his quota of enjoyment out of his Section 17 perch in the Stadium. To all luckier and less lucky brethren he wishes a strong weekend...