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Finally this potent, prophetic Briton indulged in a bit of pure irony which made some of the Bond Clubbers squirm: "You have always protected your home market. The infant industries of America have remained in swaddling clothes ever since I can remember. You have put up a tariff wall which has enabled them to grow up to manhood and protects them today. In fact, the longer you go on, the higher it gets. Of course, you never have varied, and I don't think ever will vary it or should vary...
...undergraduate must either refuse to acquire an intimate knowledge of the coming Harvard or accept the usual inconveniences of living under experimental conditions. We hesitate to predict the proportion who will choose the latter course, yet undoubtedly many will acquiesce in it against their better wishes; probably they will squirm under its impositions...
...Jackson in Indianapolis last week. The prosecution by the State was in the hands of able William H. Remy (TIME, Feb. 20), whom Mr. McCray had appointed in 1923. It looked like a clear-cut bribe conspiracy, out of which it would be difficult for Governor Jackson to squirm. But he did get out of it, easily, quietly. His lawyers pointed out that, under Indiana's statute of limitations, no man can be indicted for a bribery crime more than two years after it was committed. Thus, the indictment of Governor Jackson was illegal, unless...
...child sat mouse-still. Possibly he was awed by the nearby presence of his widowed "grandmama,'' famed Margot Asquith. Perhaps, on the other hand, he was now and then whisperingly reminded not to squirm by his mother. She is Mrs. Raymond Asquith, widow of the late statesman's eldest son, who was killed in action in 1916. Whether she whispered or "Margot" frowned, the eleven-year-old heir & Earl listened with exemplary gravity, last week, while Prime Minister Baldwin and onetime Prime Ministers Lloyd George & Ramsay MacDonald declaimed funereally from the floor of the House...
...Dust. A big rubber man of Indo-China was pinned under the playwright's microscope and allowed to squirm heroically into the blessed state of matrimony. Scourges of the tropics?heat, drought, insects, dust?add to his squirms. He passes an uncomfortable and highly monosyllabic evening. He is the strong & silent type of rubber...