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...possibilities were plain. It would react to the disadvantage of the Republican candidate, because Republican campaign funds are always the largest. But the Republicans had no love to waste upon Mr. Coolidge. On the other hand?if he should happen to be tne Democratic nominee?it would probably also react on Mr. McAdoo, who has conducted an elaborate pre-conventlon campaign that must have cost a "mint" of money, not to mention promises of patronage. As for Senator La Follette, if he becomes a third party candidate, the investigation will work entirely to his advantage: he will not have...
Epicures of musical comedy can react to Kid Boots, Poppy, Mary Jane McKane, Music Box Revue, Runnin' Wild, Andre Chariot's Revue, Lollipop...
...play must have a story, and human nature, in order to be studied, must have situations to react upon; but in the last two acts there seems to be a lack of balance between comic situation and characterization, the latter being, we are given to understand, the main purpose of the Kentucky plays. The people tend to be obscured by the very plot which never fails to keep us laughing. And after the story is done, back we come in a short tag-ending to Beem's poetry of life, as if the author had suddenly remembered what the play...
...difficult to see how this sort of impersonation will react on the true "college boy" when he sets out on an honest-to-goodness "lark". No one double the ability of the young detectives to impersonate the "college boy" perfectly--so the damage will be irreparable. Walters will hide their faces, and what will be much worse, their stores of liquors, whenever a "college boy" heaves in sight; proprietors will see that he is conducted to the farther-most table in the most dismal corner; and patrons will eye him askance with that contemptuous respect ordinarily reserved for enforcers...
...That a bonus would be bad for business and would react to the disadvantage of every citizen including the ex-service men, draining the Treasury of several millions a year for two or three generations...