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...Monthly) but they face a similar decision. Here we are permitted to observe the event. Unfortunately "Wall Around a Pool" is less simply written than the others. The hero's though-stream is tainted with literature, and his phrases sometimes suggest the love-pulps. "You could neck her and yammer love between her teeth and all the time her mind would be skating on that little pool." The heroine talks in the early Noel Coward-Philip Barry manner that used to be known as brittle. The fourth in this group, "Hike in the Spring," by Mr. Clurman, winner last year...
Ignoring this obvious reason why present wool sales are few & far between, hard-pressed dealers in Boston and Providence last week suddenly came out flat-footed against the wool tops futures exchange. Not only did they yammer about the 10? price differential between wool tops futures and raw wool, but they claimed that wool tops margins are too low, speculation too rife. The Providence Journal announced that a group of dealers this week will ask the Senate Wool Investigating Committee to suspend trading in wool tops futures. While other wool factions called this "ridiculous," Senator Alva Blanchard Adams of Colorado...
Press grew suspicious, began to yammer in bad temper about "cautious secrecy." To some editors it was inconceivable that nothing concrete was accomplished behind all the elaborate atmosphere of Washington cordiality. But in this case good atmosphere was all Signor Grandi wanted...
...thing when country editors yammer about the iniquities of Wall Street. It is quite another thing when, with bond prices following stocks down the long declivity of Depression,* such influential people as the Republican leader of the U. S. Senate publicly play with the idea of regulating the New York Stock Exchange by law (TIME...
...this was on a question of pure personalities. There were no live issues, there were no defined policies, The Convention seemed to be nothing but a chance for pseudo-business women, with nothing to do, to get together for a good big yammer. Nor have they accomplished anything, unless the further discrediting of women in politics can be called an accomplishment...