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Cristalina, the principal variety of sugar cane cultivated commercially In Cuba, is an excellent, all-round cane for general plantings. This variety fails, however, to give a high yield on dry uplands, and the ratoon or sprout plants have a tendency to deteriorate rather rapidly year by year on land which has been for a very long time under cane cultivation...
Great phrases do not sprout with frequency or ease from kindly, commonsense Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Last week he said: "We must make Democracy safe for the World...
...Irish influence in the United States is undoubtedly tremendous. Governor Smith, says the press, will wear a green scarf and green socks to celebrate the occasion. The Western Union has concocted a series of "Top o' the mornin' to you" telegrams pasted on green blanks. Shamrocks sprout in every stationery store window. Nature looks complacently on her favorite sons and does her best to hurry along the forces of spring and tint the grass green. And the Irish poets do their best to prove that she has succeeded...
When the Hoover campaign entered Ohio last fortnight to take away from Candidate Willis some of the nucleus of delegates from which he had hoped to sprout a tail-end nomination like President Harding's, Candidate Willis blustered: "Personally, I have no fear of the results." He knew he was being laughed at in urbane Cincinnati, but he felt sure that, as champion orator of the Anti-Saloon League and loyal defender of the "Ohio Gang," he could count on Ohio's farmers, small-townsmen and patronage-seekers, and on big, semidry, well-organized Cleveland. His campaign manager...
...year after year the acanthus and asphodel sprout above him, Leonidas may have doubted the efficacy of his defence. To be sure, poets have sung him in their spare moments; men have written his name in the encyclopedias and the New York Times; historians have exalted him. He doubts no more. A scintillating triumph has jarred the semi-fossilized bones in their subterraneous abode. For yesterday, the will of a deceased Camden, New Jersey, real estate agent disclosed a sum of $5000 to be devoted to the erection of a fitting and lasting memorial in King Leonidas' home town...