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...last days of the session, the right that is granted every Senator to be heard for one hour after two thirds of the Senate had agreed to bring a measure to a vote, gave a minority of even one Senator, at times, power to defeat the measure and render impotent the Senate itself...
...sniffed now and again. Other women, or sympathetic males, resenting the sniffs, have taken up arms, started anew the age-old controversy: "Should women confine their fiddling to the home? Is Love's Old Sweet Song the most ambitious composition that any female, however talented, should attempt to render?" Such questions are, of course, absurd; nor are there many remaining critics who can establish a reputation for mordacity by frequent quotation of Ruskin's remark that it is the province of man to create and woman to praise. Nevertheless, the fact remains that while orchestras of women...
Ariadne. There is a distinct suspicion among the cynics that, had this piece been produced by anyone else but the Theatre Guild, it would have stumbled and swiftly disappeared. Yet that extraordinary organization has managed to polish it up smartly, cast it astutely and render it, in general, entertaining...
With examples like these the campaign cannot fail of success. One more amendment to the Constitution will help render law-enforcement more nearly impossible. A new sort of bootlegger will arise, who, after saluting his customer with a knowing wink, will offer "A carton of pre-war Luckies, toasted and aged in the wood--genuine stuff, best on this side of the Atlantic...
...spite of the fact that we have been handicapped by the lack of ice for the last two weeks," declared Coach Denisha, "I expect the team to be back in form and able to render a telling account of itself by Saturday night...