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Washington correspondents, irritated by the tedious roaring of Senator Heflin of Alabama, have sometimes agreed to keep "his speeches "off the wire." He has been called a modern Ben Gunn,* a "stuffed white waistcoat" and even a "flat tire"; but his oratory is unpreventable. Last week his subject was an alleged $1,000,000 fund of the Knights of Columbus to carry on war propaganda against Mexico; his words might have been confined, unnoticed, to the Congressional Record, had not leading Democratic Senators risen to rebuke him. For three hours, Democrats talked. Republicans smiled, walked in and out, said nothing...
Echoes. Senator James Thomas Heflin of Alabama read the decision of the Fall-Doheny jurors. His white waistcoat swelled with indignation; he hastened to tell his colleagues about it. When they saw him rise from his seat in the back row of the Senate, they knew he would discourse for a half hour. Said he: "I do not want this day to pass without saying a word about a farcical trial&* and miscarriage of justice that has taken place in the city of Washington. I feel that the people of the nation, the law-abiding citizens, the honest...
...target and still he stood unhurt. The Rotarians drew closer . . . "Blam-blam!" . . . and soon three of them were writhing with pain. Baker Walter C. Spitz, Banker John Telling and Reporter H. V. Streeter suffered cuts, scratches and contusions as chunks of lead, ricocheting from the entertainer's fancy waistcoat-now proved bullet- proof beyond the shadow of a doubt-whirred among craning necks and peering heads, luckily injuring only three and those but slightly...
...romancist. She is off center (How many miles is it to Bucharest?), she is fickle, and she is expressive of her own views, virtues, and vertigoes. Jean J. Rousseau would adore her as he left for the zoo; Gauter would sing of her as he polished his waistcoat buttons; Plato would not believe she existed; and Aristotle would give up his chair of comparative literature. Horace might add that in the consulship of Marcellus women did'nt make quite such a disturbance. Yes, this lady from the Balkans is romantic to the core. And so is the Fourth Estate...
...delightful book "American Soundings," J. St. Loe Strackly, says that on his visit to Harvard last year "the impression was that of surety youth." His comment on Harvard is all favorable with this possible exception." He says his student hosts at the Harvard Union were resplendent in "immaculate white waistcoats and dinner jackets of the very latest cut." Is it not a sartorial sin at Harvard to combine a white waistcoat with a dinner jacket? To old-fashioned chaps this is as irregular as russet colored shoes worn with evening dress. How about it? AN OLD GRAD...