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...Senate prepared to reconvene, Republican members were poised for a hard game of puss-in-corner. The corner: a Finance Committee seat vacated by Walter Evans Edge, now Ambassador to France. Pusses: young Senator Robert Marion LaFollette of Wisconsin, old Senator Guy Despard Goff of West Virginia...
...Progressives. On the basis of seniority (length of Senate service) he had seemed sure of edging into the Finance Committee corner. But Old Guardsmen, alarmed, commenced beckoning the loose-jowled, slow-stepping Goff, Republican regular. They wanted him to run for the Finance Committee corner to head off bold Puss La Follette, over whom he has a technical advantage of seven months seniority. But Puss Goff was reluctant to obey the party summons because to do so would leave his cozy corner on the Interstate Commerce Committee open to capture by Puss La Follette. It is from his Interstate Commerce...
...game of shifting committee places for Republican Senators threatened to become rougher than child's play. Puss La Follette had the solid support of the G. O. Progressives. Regular Republican Senators were ready to shove Puss Goff from one corner to the other at any hazard. Democrats were spoiling to join the scramble on the Senate floor. In the meantime all other committee assignments were held in abeyance...
...with a curled lip, Nicolo Machiavelli, watched the puss-in-the-corner competition of petty princes, watched hired captains of mercenaries scheming to prolong their lucrative warfare, watched Ludovico break the unwritten rule of the game and call in Charles VIII, Foreigner, to settle a local dispute, while all Italians smiled, bowed, tossed flowers in the French king's path, stones in his wake. With still more of a curl to his lip, Nicolo watched Savonarola hypnotizing the garish Florentine crowds into demure god-fearing citizenry, and the street gamins into veritable "boyscouts of the Lord." He suspected...
Judith had its premiere in Chicago last week. Through many an irritating postponement the public had waited anxiously. Mary Garden had promised an opera that would make her Salome look like puss-in-the-corner. As Judith, the Biblical girl,* Miss Garden sang magnificently. The critics however, did not share her enthusiasm for the opera or for Arthur Honegger's music. It tended to leap from vigorous stimulation into dissonance-reflecting the modernistic trend...