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...shopkeepers, was momentarily absorbed by a gawking family from Kansas. A guttersnipe from the Left Bank (Miss Montgomery) stole his heart. Her Apache boyfriend stole his wallet. Ingenious winds and strings described the American's moods, half jaunty, half homesick. The orchestra revived him with a Charleston, got riotous when he decided to make a night...
Because most artists of ability live close to the Manhattan art marts and consider New York their State no matter whence they came, New York's contribution was the largest, easily the best. Reginald Marsh had one of his riotous confusions at Coney Island, this time entitled George T. Tilyou's Steeplechase Park. Sculptor Mahonri Young offered a bronze boxer. There were able nudes by Isabel Bishop and Alexander Brook and a study of a black parasol by Morris Kantor that was possibly the best still life in the show...
...week's end the Act was denounced from within the committee itself. Indiana's Democratic Representative Glenn Griswold criticized the wage-fixing provisions as "far more riotous than the NIRA." Nor would friends of Secretary of State Hull's reciprocal trade treaties add peace to the scene at the bland suggestion of the Act's coauthor, Representative William Patrick ("Billy") Connery Jr. of Massachusetts. He suggested that the Labor Standards Board would be given permissive authority to increase import duties if increased U. S. labor costs led to threat of destructive foreign competition...
...lusty recrudescence of house spirit par excellence occurred yesterday evening at 7 o'clock, as a joyous band of Deacon musicians cut loose in a riotous jam session in the Kirkland courtyard in celebration of a triple victory in crew, baseball, and tennis, by which the Deacons clinched the Straus interhouse trophy...
...this thick plot another ingredient was added when the electrician who had installed Schenzvit's radio committed suicide. In his house the police found charred papers showing Italian writing. For months there have been rumors of Italian agents subsidizing riotous Arab leaders to embarrass Britain. The police, looking next for a "beautiful blonde spy" said to have been in Schenzvit's confidence, declared: "We have crossed the trail of one of the most important and alarming espionage rings in the history of the Near East." Among other things, Schenzvit was "plotting to free Palestine from Britain...