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...famed as any architect in the U. S. A childhood with religious parents in Pawtucket, R. I. made him so rigorous a Baptist that, when he entered the Beaux Arts in Paris, he refused even to look at Notre Dame because it was Catholic. Later he lost the vigor of his religious beliefs but never his lusty delight in arguments, his habit of sloppy dressing, his inordinate liking for cats...
...Treasury has authority, under legislation passed last session, to buy as much as 1,000,000,000 ounces of silver and to issue certificates against it. But virtually nothing has been done and a deflationary process is increasing in vigor...
Health, wealth and wisdom encompassed the 966 osteopaths who attended the American Osteopathic Association's convention in Wichita, Kans. last week. Wichita's temperature went as high as 102° but failed to diminish the vigor of the osteopaths as they bustled between lectures, shows, dances, banquets. They crowded Wichita's three good hotels, dressed mostly in white, doffed their coats...
...years the first name on the Senate's alphabetical roll-call, he always responds with vigor, starting off proceedings with a flourish. Aside from his career on the Judiciary Committee and in spite of his long service, he is neither a Grade A Senator like Borah or Wagner or a Grade A Democrat like Robinson of Arkansas or Byrnes. Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a loyal, picturesque party politician of average intelligence, who sounds better than he really is. His term expires March...
...Government is determined that no person or group of persons shall usurp the functions of the State," declared Sir John, referring to the Mosley blackshirts who seized hecklers at Olympia with policemanly vigor and threw them outside to be arrested by Sir John's Bobbies. Later he said: "The Government has decided that alterations in the law shall be made to give uniformed policemen the right to attend any meeting at which they have reason to anticipate disorder...