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...round the field as western ranchers used to drag a horse-thief when they caught one. Will Rogers' deliberate awkwardness, his sham ble, mock shyness and ability on horse back, are all ideal for the role, and it does not matter that his drawl is Oklahoma in stead of Connecticut. His personality and his multifarious activities have made him by this time, even to Americans, a figure symbolic of American ism. Next best part : dignified old William Farnum, the hero of many a two-fisted thriller some ten years ago, as King Arthur...
...read in the newspaper this morning," wrote Mr. Churchill to Mr. Baldwin, "that you wish Mr. Neville Chamberlain to conduct the [Conservative] opposition to the finance bill in my stead. As a matter of purely private courtesy I should have expected a letter from you to this effect...
Senator Bingham, of Connecticut, is the latest to raise his voice in protest at the majority Republican policy of meeting the impending federal deflcit by large scale borrowing. He champions in its stead a taxation of a greater proportion of the population. Under the present system corporations and the very wealthy bear the chief burden of national support. Mr. Bingham believes that the more people paying taxes, the greater will be the sense of public responsibility for national economy. At present, he feels that the un-taxes portion of the public forces large appropriations from the government under the impression...
...things she writes about. Her adventures, like those of all such week-to-week women-of-straw, are as varied as they are improbable. First engaged,'then married to a Mr. Haddock, who has lost his seat in Parliament but still takes himself seriously, Topsy stands in his stead, is elected hands down. As an M.P. she drafts many a portentous Bill aimed at the discomfiture of Puritans and the increase of gaiety. But motherhood, as it may to any married woman, comes to Topsy; the book ends with her ecstatic but disillusioned description of her twins...
...cannot contain himself, instead of putting the suggestion in his own mouth he says: "The expression is. . . ." The expression is, then, that a hitherto unnoticed swan was discovered in Manhattan's Central Park near the place and time Dorothy Arnold (famed lost girl) disappeared; that the stars, in stead of being inconceivably far away and wandering individually are probably within rocket-shot and set in a revolving shell (Ptolemaic astronomy;. Says Fort: ''Of course the stars are near. Who, but a few old fossils, ever thought otherwise? . . . All these notions . . . were matters of common knowledge, away back...