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...Kelly, chronic assassin of the King's English, began to speak. No one, he said, had ever before voluntarily resigned as chairman of the Cook County Democratic Committee, They either died, or got tossed out on their ear, he said. He wound up: "I hereby render-uh-tender my resignation." The boys clapped, there were murmurs of "Aw, Boss...
...best hot records of recent years. Don Byas, temporarily forsaking the riffy, howling style he has been courting lately, and Johnny Hodges, from whom one might well have expected at least one good performance, take up most of the twelve inches with slow lyrical and tender soloings on an undistinguished, though at least idiomatic, popular tune of several years back called "Gone With the Wind." Hodges is on his best behaviour, playing the type of music he likes best in the style in which he best likes to play it; and as for Don Carlos Byas, eh bien; some circles...
Most of the work in the exhibit was done after the first of Remington's countless western tours. He made the trip at 19, on feet still tender from a year at Yale. He got his first callus when a tinhorn took him for his last cent. He added blisters working as clerk, ranch cook and cowhand. Finally he joined (as a correspondent) the fight against the Apache chief Geronimo...
...Chamber of Deputies when Mussolini dissolved it, never collaborated with the Fascists. Italy well remembered the election speech of this last pre-Fascist President of the Chamber in 1920: "All shall feel their love for this our land-cradle of us all and deathbed of our fathers-grow more tender as crisis threatens. . . ." Scattered critics complained that "he never did anything bad [because] he never did anything at all," that he was a man "with no passions." But even the rockbound royalists of his native Naples now supported "De Nicola's republic...
...Gentleman from Indiana, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner (The Magnificent Amber sons, 1919; Alice Adams, 1922), whose heirs included Willie Baxter, Penrod and Sam, Monsieur Beaucaire; after long illness; in Indianapolis. In the generation of Hoosier writing which produced James Whitcomb Riley and George Ade, he carved his niche with tender, trenchant satire on U.S. life and manners. A tremendous worker, he wrote 60 novels and plays, drove himself so hard that he once lost his eyesight. In the belief that pleasure should pay, he financed upkeep of his Kennebunkport, Me. home with chucklers about summer people (Mary's Neck...