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...staunch supporters of Will Rogers who desired a humorist in the White House are beginning to perk up. Only a few months ago the Chief Executive also headlined the Fourth Estate with the fervent desire that the London Naval Conference would bring about "a definite slash in armaments," not merely a limitation treaty. The Washington Wit scores not so much in this amusing reversal of form as in the revelation that both of these Spectacles for the People were after all, only "mimic Games"; one a peace-puzzle of comic sections and the other a panorama of toy ships...
...Despite the cold weather that rather rudely descended down upon Hanover today a goodly number of the Dartmouth college students continued to wear their short pants today and walked about the streets bare legged. Some of the more timid souls resorted back to the conventional long pants but the staunch supporters of the movement could not be frozen...
...differ in the slightest degree from that of the interior of the new Houses, he has carefully prepared a suitable quantity of the Right Sort of paint for their emergent petals. This goes to show that, after all is said and done, the little fellow is indeed a staunch friend of the Corporation...
...Ever a staunch pillar of the Grand Old Party, Taft as President tempered with perhaps too much caution the flery reform policy of Roosevelt, his friend and predecessor. Nevertheless, the qualities that he lacked as a leader were more than amply balanced by his devotion to public welfare outside of personal reward and his firm interpretation of the National Constitution. Rhetoric beats a shallow drum before the figure of a man whose effort was not stinted with egoism, whose diseeraing eyes were not slow to kindle with humanity. As a man who played many integral parts against the shifting background...
...tricycle, and how many of your young people can?" As a private collection, the Earl's gallery of historic oil paintings at Croome Court is second to few. His boasts?he has been twice Captain of the King's Gentlemen-at-Arms, twice Master of Royal Buckhounds. Though a staunch Conservative he is on friendly terms with Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, now "Father of the House of Commons" (i. e., not the oldest member, but the one longest a member?40 years in the case of Mr. Lloyd George, and for the Earl of Coventry 87 years). The youngest...