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...undeniable hints that Mr. Shaw could be quite sentimental if he could take his tongue out of his cheek long enough. But that would not be playing the part he has set aside for himself in all of his plays. So, in this play he ends with his usual quirk. There is a discourse on the evils of middle class morality, the verbose Doolittle is led to the noose of matrimony, Higgins returns to his phonetics, and Eliza remains a "good" girl...
...this last foresight which took him last month to Washington, D. C., and, by a quirk of human affairs, to the borderland of another phase of the future. The Senators who asked him to come and tell about Radio Corp.'s plan for selling its communications business to International Telephone & Telegraph Co., were far less interested in his business ideas than in the effect which those ideas, publicly expressed, might have upon Owen D. Young's chances of becoming the Democratic party's candidate for President...
...sheep rancher, Senator Sullivan grew up with the West, prospered with its oil. He lives at Casper in the State's finest mansion. Plain, bighearted, full of fight or banter, Irishman Sullivan was undisturbed by reports that the Senate might question his right to membership because of a quirk juggled into the Wyoming law by a Republican legislature to prevent one-time (1925-27) Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross from appointing a Democrat in case Senator Warren died...
...latest quirk in the problem cropped up last week in Paris when French Senator Henry de Mery arose to comment on the proposed. duPont-financed seadromes of Inventor Edward R. Armstrong (TIME. Oct. 28). Senator de Mery urged the French delegation to the London parley to bring up this matter in connection with U. S. naval strength, warning that otherwise "just outside our territorial waters we will someday likely see islands appear flying the Star-Spangled Banner...
...queer quirk in the whole situation was that Japan, which for months has stubbornly kept an interventionary force in Shantung, disregarding incessant Nationalist howls of protest, suddenly came to terms last week with the shaky and harassed Nationalist Government and entered into a signed agreement to withdraw her slit-eyed marines by June 1. It is common knowledge that Japan has financed and favored Marshal Chang, the captor of Chefoo, but it would be news indeed if the Imperial Government con- siders Chang already strong enough to see that Japanese interests and colonists in Shantung come to no harm during...