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Political diagnosticians regard the Senator's misfortune as an evil symptom for the third party movement. No other insurgent has equal vim, vigor, vitality. No other has as great a following. Regular Republicans, kneeling by their beds before blowing out the evening candle, murmur: "And may Fighting Bob recover, but let third parties perish in miserable confusion. Amen...
...together has not proved nearly so difficult as many critics, after hearing of Hubbard's injury, supposed it would be. Coach Muller feels that the eight is going almost as smoothly now with Hobson at 5 as it did previously, but the question of putting dash and vim into the handling of the sweeps remains an acute problem--a problem upon the solving of which rests to a large extent the outcome of Friday's contest...
...devoted largely to the topic of home brew. A fine time, however, was had by all, in spite of that. The Four Mortons in a golf skit entitled "Wearing Out the Green" and Will Gressy and Blanche Dayne divide the prize for being old favorites. Patricola sings with a vim and a remarkably clear enunciation; she deserves all the applause given her. Ernest Hall, song writer, played many of his own works and some that were not, in his own entertaining way. For sheer personality Ensign Al Moore and his U. S. Jazz Band were remarkable. "The Bashful Romeo...
Democrats were in hopes that the visit of Governor Cox to Boston would offset the advantage which the Republicans have thus obtained. Cox will undoubtedly away some votes, but the Republicans are putting a new vim into their campaign during the last few days and are not worrying. Governor Coolidge's speeches in the South will also have an effect here, for Massachusetts people have come to admire the homely common sense which their executive puts into a public utterance, and their only criticism of his campaign to date is that he has spoken so infrequently...
...fall gratifying New York and Boston with another appearance in Shakespearean repertoire. The qualities which have gained her so many admirers, Miss Marlowe today exhibits as gloriously as in past years. One might charge that Katharina does not kick and stamp, box ears, and throw household furnishings with the vim that one expects of a celebrated virago. Miss Marlowe has, undoubtedly, given us a subdued characterization; when one has felt her subtle power to illuminate feminine irrationality, one does not regret the omission of the conventional rough and tumble...