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Harvard's gridiron forces have not been severely tested this fall and the Cadet encounter will be in the nature of an acid test for the 1929 Crimson machine. Optimism reigns among the hosts of Harvard supporters and there is a feeling in the University camp that this year's team possesses all the ingredients essential for repelling the assaults of Cagle, Murrel, and their running mates...
...Long and acid were the "whereases" and "therefores" in a resolution by sarcastic Senator Caraway of Arkansas which the Senate adopted unanimously last week. It mentioned "filch" and "unclean dollars" and "greedy pockets." It was aimed at Washington's Lobbyists-especially the modern type of lobbyist who gets fat fees by boasting how heavily he can influence the land's legislators.* The Judiciary Committee was instructed to investigate any and all lobbyists, the sources of their revenues, the purposes of their spendings. Hollow-eyed Senator Morris, the committee chairman, the Senate's most non-partisan member, weighed...
...whiskers" were formed by sulphuric acid fumes from lighting equipment, and stone-dust...
...suspects her of having committed. Al Draper decoys both of them eventually to his roulette and poker establishment from which, by means of a raid, they are hustled to the office of the district attorney. Here, in a prolonged questioning Mazie abuses the interlocutor and the assembled company with acid witticisms. After her snarlings are concluded, the audience is pleased to discover that both girls, though fairly bad, are innocent of a murder whose author, most suitably, commits off-stage suicide...
...members were vexed to learn that Eastern newspapers had scare-headed an ordinary Federal food-&-drug seizure of 500 cans of ether in Boston, 400 in Providence, R. I. The seizures were similar to those which food-&-drug men constantly make. Ether is made from alcohol and sulphuric acid. Carelessly made it may contain harmful peroxides and aldehydes. Carefully made it may deteriorate with age or on exposure to light, heat or air. Consequently, manufacturers distribute it in small containers to ensure fresh supplies at wholesale houses and hospitals...