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...buffer State is proverbially hard. The Secretary to the President is a buffer State between his master and a horde of graspers who swoop down on the White House with endless demands. The Secretary needs diplomacy and a study of defense...
...pleasure trip over Lake George, with two passengers, a Miss Wilson of New York and a Mr. Thomas Light, when a gust of wind wrapped the lady's skirt round the " joy stick " or control column. Frantic efforts to disentangle it failed, and in a wild swoop the seaplane struck the water of the lake with terrific impulse. A sliver from a wing strut pierced the pilot's skull, but the unconscious woman and the other passenger, suffering from a broken leg, were promptly rescued...
From another source comes a despatch stating that General Feng Yu-Hsiang, known as the "Christian General," is about to exterminate the bandits with the legendary " one fell swoop." In the face of official reports from Peking there is probably not a word of truth in this contention. The Washington Post, in an editorial, humorously sums up the character of the Christian hymn-singing army: " An American officer reported that he had heard Chinese soldiers on the march singing to the tune of Onward, Christian Soldiers, but the words meant something different. They sang the Doxology at meals...
...evident that the originators of this plan have no fear of the unlucky "13"; or possibly they are bent on ruining the whole world at one fell swoop. Imagine, also, trying to figure the interest at four and three-fourths percent of $19.19 for three months and three days when a month is a thirteenth of a year and twenty-eight days is not divisible by three! And think of the awful rate of the small boy whose birthday falls always on Sunday! No! No! If we decide to steal a march on Dame Nature let us be fair...
Perhaps it is too much to expect that all these matters will be decided at one fell swoop, but we hope that they will be considered carefully and acted on as soon as possible...