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Then, the people are charming, even though they flit in and out of the plot without rhyme or reason. They live in nice places, picnic and go trout-fishing whether at home or in the Pyrenees for financial reasons, have their jokes and family catch-words in a delightful idyllic existence. If a reader is reconciled to a purposeless book that smells of what the English country life should be (and the combination has refreshing elements) the flavor of "The Dinosaur's Egg" is sufficiently delicate to make one wish that such eggs were a staple commodity on the market...
...Washington President Coolidge told newspaper men he wished something could be done: Visitors to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier had been seen sitting on the edge of the tomb, and had left paper and refuse from picnic lunches around the tomb...
...took the Illinois vote east to the Democratic National Convention in Manhattan 15 months ago, last week took the Governor of New York west to Chicago. He arrived in a private car with 15 backers and carried Al Smith off for a day in Chicago and a big Democratic picnic. "We asked him to come because we liked him," said Mr. Brennan affably...
...carried him by automobile some 20 or 25 miles out of Chicago to the Beverly Hills forest preserve. Newspaper men trooped along- some Manhattan papers going so far as to send men on for the event-because they were sure it was going to be a great picnic, and because they were sure it was going to be the beginning of the "Smith for President in 1928" movement...
...great picnic. Nearly 100,000 of Boss Brennan's followers met on a great hillside pasture, but the fireworks failed to materialize. Mr. Smith said it was too much to expect states to reduce their expenses as much as the Federal Government had done, because the states had no war expenses to clean away. From then on he did not touch on another national issue-not Prohibition, nor the Ku Klax Klan. The crowd applauded but it did not go wild...