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...scheme is ingenious. Two introductory poems set the stage, the scene: "... a shabby backdrop of bright stars: one of the small interstices of time." Then the itemized catalogs begin. First, The Costumes ("Item: a pair of infant's socks two inches long . . . Item: long trousers . . . Item: a tweed hat bought in England, green . . . Item: a coffin"). Then Characteristic Comments from: the nursery clock, the shoes, the fire, Shakespeare, Vivien, the desk, the prostitute, the heart. You hear Remarks on the Person of Mr. Jones from: the trained nurse ("it's a fine boy, not a blemish, God bless...
...Judge Cardozo of N. Y. Court of Appeals with reference to his decision concerning testimony of Horse Doctor Doyle before legislative investigating committee. But TIME does not mention- and I wonder if it is aware that another Judge Cardozo figured conspicuously if ingloriously in the history of Boss Tweed's infamous career and downfall? I have often wondered if the present Judge Cardozo is a descendant of the Tweed judge of super-"fine distinctions"? Being a casual student of history such questions interest me and any enlightenment TIME can give me on this point will be interesting...
When Counsel Seabury heard of this he angrily accused the opposition lawyers of "trickery and deceit," announced that Dr. Doyle was being protected "by tactics of the Tweed Ring." Meantime, Counsel Seabury learned of a certain telephone call which had been put through to Lake Placid a few hours prior to Justice Sherman's order, a call from the Manhattan apartment of Tammany's crafty Boss Curry. When news of this got out Manhattan newspapers pictured a worried Tammany with its back against a closed door from behind which came the querulous voice of Horse Doctor Doyle saying...
...Materials: wool, tweed, much velvet, taffeta, lace, crepe. Novelties: diarachnak, a new double rough tweed, and dogaliah, a rough wool filled with long white dog hair...
...news that Hatter's Castle had been accepted. Its sales will tell him whether to go on doctoring or write professionally; he will not do both. Married (his wife is also M.D.), he has two sons, likes to golf at St. Andrews, fish for salmon on the Tweed...