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...trusts; Taft had to make it connect. T. R. had been supple enough to play politics with a conservative Congress without seeming to do so; Taft had to temper Uncle Joe Cannon and was promptly accused of bowing to him. T. R.'s bouncing spirit rode the ground swell of the Progressive movement; Taft was too solid to bounce. His great girth, white walrus moustaches and booming chuckle made it easy for people to like him at first, just as easy for them to see him later as an affable pushover for Big Business...
Meantime, as rescue ships reached port, stories of U-boat successes outside the convoy lanes continued to swell the grisly sea record...
...Kiss the Boys Good-bye" might be funny even with mediocre handling, but with a cast that's on the up-and-up, the play at the Wilbur adds up to a sum total of swell comedy...
Another Eleanor Roosevelt story came via Walter Winchell, who reported that William Allen White had thus inscribed a gift copy of Mrs. Roosevelt's autobiography (This Is My Story), "This is a swell story of the wisest, kindest, dearest, smartest First Lady I have ever known, and my candidate for Franklin's third term...
...made her way to the surface ("it was swell, that air"), grabbed a floating barrel, helped some men gather planks for a raft...