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...Democratic national pot came to a brief hard boil in the ornate dining room of Washington's fashionable Mayflower Hotel one day last week. Then it settled down to a long sullen simmer. The fire under the pot was, as usual, Prohibition...
Sumner of Yale (folkways, etc.) and his dictum that what Ethan Allen probably said to Capt. Delaplace at Ticonderoga was "Surrender, you blank-blank blank-of-a-blank." Simmer's interest was debunking history, de flating legends of false heroics...
...before his son (1909-11). But Committeeman Howard's Hamilton Fish commanded Negro troops in the War. He likes Negroes and they like him. "His nomination is logical," said Committeeman Howard. "There are ten states . . . etc." Other G. O. Politicians put the Fish idea aside and let it simmer...
Celebrities follow bright rainbows to pots of shining gold. The U. S. pot is most golden. Therefore choicest celebrities from overseas swarm into it, simmer, exude the essences of genius. Last week the pot seemed brimming full. Choice dumplings were...
...Extract the brains from the public, pickle them, put them in the Natural History Museum with a strong infusion of monkey gland, stir hard and let simmer for 100 years. Something may emerge from the mixture...