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Pride is the historical constant of the United States Senate. All generation of Senators from Clay and Webster, through Douglas and Seward, Aldrich and Allison, Lodge, LaFollette, and Penrose, have bequeathed this spirit of independence. It is as permanent as the snuff-boxes on the wall, of which Mr. Lowry writes, "Probably no Senator has taken snuff since Millard Fillmore's day, but it is the duty of the Sergeant-at-Arms to keep those two boxes freshly filed...
...latest Standard Dictionary gives "tenderfeet" only for the plural of "tenderfoot." However, Webster's International is the authority by which TIME goes, and this dictionary prefers "tenderfoots...
...most important decisions of the tribunal concerned the claims of an American in New Zealand. William Webster, a Maine man, bought 500,000 acres of land in New Zealand from native chiefs during the five years prior to 1840. His medium of exchange was described before the commission as consisting of rum, duck trousers, blankets, tobacco and powder. Other speculators purchased large tracts of land, and soon 650,000 acres more than the total area of New Zealand had been sold in all. To complicate matters, Great Britain annexed New Zealand in 1840. Only titles recognized by the land court...
...Never Died. The determined and generally erratic Provincetown Playhouse is again busy with a wild experiment. From the pen of Charles Webster, an actor, they have produced a play about a man who discovers the secret of eternal life. This secret is not a matter of potions and glands; it is rather some spiritual understanding of the future so satisfying that the casual troubles of the world do not wear out the body. All this comes out in the last half of the play. The first half is a murder mystery very much like that in any Broadway mystery play...
HILDA YOUNT ERTEL Williamsport, Pa. TIME regrets that the use of "it" should injure the feelings of a parent. Webster's International Dictionary seems to furnish plenty of authority when it says: "It is now used only of an inanimate object or of an animate one in which sex is disregarded...