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...knows all about everybody's past, so much, in fact, that at the end of Act II one of the characters shoots him. But gunfire cannot kill the Old Harry Himself. He pops up again in the last act as good as new, sends his guests home sadder, wiser, having made $100,000 out of his party. There are many, many better plays to spend your money...
...impotence (final returns gave Labor 52 seats in the present Parliament, compared to 287 in 1929 and 267 when Parliament adjourned). When beaten Leader Henderson had heard the worst he sighed, "I am sad and sorry." Later he brightened, prophesied: "Before many months have gone the nation will be sadder and sorrier...
...humiliation of being actually in love was threatening to bring Jo to a normal level, he overheard a conversation which even a cleverer man would have understood. When his consequent breakdown, complicated with influenza, failed to bring him Death, he married faithful Alice-leaving the story a sadder, much less interesting...
...Fascist device.* Placid, bespectacled Pope Pius XI and other churchmen actually resident in the new Papal State could not vote because they are no longer citizens of Italy. Dopesters estimated that His Holiness' influence had flung into the scale of Fascismo at least 1,000,000 extra votes. A sadder if not wiser voter was Crown Prince Umberto of Savoy. There is every reason to believe the stories that H. R. H. detests Commoner Mussolini and once challenged him to duel over what he deemed a point of honor to the Royal House. The disgruntled Prince, recently promoted...
...they'll learn a sadder lesson at the parties in Back...