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...Republican shambles, he [Mr. Hoover] is vaguely reminiscent of a plump and timorous capon, fluttering anxiously on the outskirts of a free-for-all cockfight...
...House, the Norris measure was altered by Pennsylvania's Morin to plump the U. S. squarely into the fertilizer business. This brought the National Fertilizer Association buzzing back to Washington in open, indignant lobby. Their case seemed better than the case of the Power lobbyists and the House consented to substitute the words "fixed nitrogen" for "fertilizer." The U. S. would make, as it did during the War, the ingredient of fertilizer and ammunition, not the finished product. Government operation of the power plants was retained and, as the Bill passed the House, a $10,000,000 Government power...
...sometimes offered by Edward of Wales to that small smart set which fore-gathers at his bachelor quarters in York House (a wing of St. James's Palace). Last week this sporting company chuckled as His Royal Highness displayed a cartoon of his own sketching. It showed a plump and ruddy personage, the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the act of presenting his Budget for 1928 to the House of Commons (TIME...
...Coolidge, in summery white hat, suit and gloves, went too. They took seven-year-old Suzanne Boone and her parents. (Dr. Joel T. Boone is White House physician.) With Mr. Ringling by their side they saw the land elephants and lots of other creatures. President Coolidge shook hands with plump little Lilian Leitzel, the show's regal trapeze artist. And before hurrying back to his duties, President Coolidge discovered that a sea elephant is just an overgrown species of seal (Mirounga leonina), carnivorous, mammalian, with a flexible proboscis (not nearly so long as the land elephant's), wiry...
...Divorced Wives of Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey are: first the great Halide Edib Hanoum, foremost Turkish feminist; and secondly the plump and pretty Latife Hanoum, winsome, vivacious, rich...