Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubt the most honest, sincere and unbiased criticism of the New Deal heard in this country came from the lips of ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith speaking before the Liberty League in New York Saturday night. With no trace of personal bitterness or ravings, but with fairness and in plain terms, did the nation's leading "conservative Democrat" call the administration to task for its neglected party pledges and its wanderings from the paths of constitutionality. An especial tribute to Mr. Smith's sincerity of purpose is the fact that the Liberty League, at first evidently affected by the dinner...
...Smith spoke in plain language and his words went far beyond the tables of the Liberty League. How much opinion he swayed will only be known next fall. One may score the fact that his criticisms of the New Deal were general, that his solutions were highly theoretical and that the telling effects of his shots were somewhat dulled by their humorous setting, necessitated, no doubt, by the camaraderie of the occasion. All this is true, yet what he said is precisely what a large proportion of this country is thinking today. His challenge will have to be answered...
...must confess to having succumbed to the temptation to purchase one such attractive machine. ... I soon found that the apparatus was in little demand and that the work could be done just as easily with 1) an ordinary treatment table, 2) a plain glass irrigation jar on a stand, 3) a rectal tube and a Y tube with two clamps, and 4) a large closed jar or an ordinary hopper to receive the return flow...
...That the pin-game has been able to evade the consequences of this is due to the fact that it is not essentially a form of gambling. Whenever he indulges in it, a pin-game player is sure to lose a nickel. Last year, however, when the novelty of plain pin-games began to wear off, shrewd operators devised the idea of rewarding high scores with prizes. "Sportlands" (of which there were soon 60 in New York) are pin-game parlors which give to their customers coupons commensurate with their scores. Coupons can be exchanged for prizes ranging from teacups...
Though organized fox-hunting is 50 years old in the U. S., the sport is still on the defensive. Nonhunting, non-Anglophile sportsmen are apt to see something silly in the expensive preoccupations of the "manure set," while plain citizens are apathetic if not hostile. The hunting set itself, impregnably self-sufficient as it tries to appear, is uncomfortably aware that they order these things better in England. This popular U. S. attitude toward fox-hunting is reflected in the jolly apologias emitted from time to time by U. S. foxy grandpas. Latest view-halloo was sounded by Harry Twyford...