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...comprehensive slow motion pictures were accepted, not one, but many, uncalled fouls would be revealed in every hard-fought game. The scores of every important football game in history would have to be revised. The decision of every hard-fought game would require about as long as the Teapot Dome case. This being the case, it seems to us a little shorts of the fine old Bulldog sportsmanship to broadcast to the world this particular non-called Army foul...
...Teapot With Your Tutor...
...heard him two years ago with the San Francisco Symphony, knew his suave, mocking Valse, his lovely Mother-Goose Suite, his high-powered Bolero. Prepared to be charmed, they watched the unfolding of his latest fantasy about a boy who shirked his studies, teased his pets. Clock, chairs, teapot came to life. Cat, squirrel, frog and bat took on human ways. It was all delightfully fragile and the more music-wise waxed enthusiastic over the smart orchestration which suggested perfectly so detailed a bit as the Boy stupidly mulling over his mathematics. Soprano Queena Mario, all agreed, made an irresistibly...
Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson, of Arkansas, Senate minority leader and Democratic delegate to the London Conference, proposed to qualify the McKellar resolution by requesting the confidential papers only "if not incompatible with the public interest." Familiar with their contents, he declared: "The whole discussion is a tempest in a teapot. . . . They [the papers] are absolutely trivial and insignificant so far as they reflect any light on the Treaty. ... If they were ever published they would make us appear absolutely ridiculous and they might make some other people ridiculous for withholding them...
...such issues I as the confirmation of Louis Dembitz Brandeis' nomination to the Supreme Court, U. S. entrance into the League of Nations, the Women's Suffrage and Child Labor amendments. However, he enjoyed small prominence as a statesman until he stumbled upon traces of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil-lease scandals. Then unheeded, he dug and plugged at the evidence from October 1923 until February 1924, burst forth with his accusations. Surprised at finding his old friend Edward L. Doheny implicated, he nevertheless faced him across the inquisitors' table, prosecuted the investigation relentlessly. Successful...