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...celebrate the fifth anniversary, the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party in Russia issued a manifesto "to all workers and toilers." The manifesto was described as being "rather a tame document." It points out that the Internationale has grown from small beginnings to a "world force before which the bourgeoisie everywhere shrinks and trembles"; it also refers to a "deadly struggle against opportunism," which means a struggle against a compromise between capital and labor such as is now said to have been effected in Britain...
Farmers' receipts from corn, oats, barley, buckwheat, flaxseed, potatoes, hay (tame and wild), tobacco, cotton and cottonseed, sugar beets, maple sugar, sorghum, peanuts, beans, onions, cabbage, hops, apples and oranges were all in excess of the crop values of last year. The current year, however, provided less crops than 1922 in wheat, rye, rice, clover seed, grain sorghums, broom corn, cranberries, peaches and pears...
...know quite which is more tiresome? watching one of the 57 Hollywood varieties of "daughters'' go straight to the Nether Octopus of Shame, via the bathing-revel and flask-party route or seeing one of them won away from rouge, the Ritz and high-hattiness in general by kittens, tame canaries, rural atmosphere and the sight of a pair of baby-rompers. But The Love Piker temporarily swings the weight of ennui in the latter direction. Hope Warner (Anita Stewart) was a frightful snob. She broke the speed laws, owned a Pekinese, and when rescued by the stalwart Martin...
There he and his party had rested for two days. He had found the wild animals tame, had fed bears sweet rolls out of his hand, had witnessed "one of the finest impulses that animates the heart of man" when the driver of the Presidential automobile had brought it to a stop to avoid running over two baby grouse, "no bigger than hickory nuts." The President had likewise committed himself to the plan of local boosters to add 400,000 acres to the Park by annexing the Jackson Hole country and part of the Teton Range...
Battling Siki: "I was obliged to postpone my match with the British middleweight Moore because my arm was bitten by a lion I was trying to tame...