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With Scot MacDonald away, the steering committee of the Labor Party was in undisputed charge of its alert, broad-featured chairwoman, Miss Arabella Susan Lawrence, a rich barrister's daughter who would rather be Laborite than socialite. Last week Miss Lawrence heard rumblings of discord. People were beginning to say that the Prime Minister ought to be home solving the unemployment problem, not gadding about reducing navies. At such times the party executive must put up a front, loose an achievement or two as a sop to criticism. Observers divined the strategy of Arabella Susan Lawrence in the following...
...Captain Barrett, one of the finest tackles in Eastern gridiron circles, the most alert man on the field and a steadying influence to a shaky line...
...Crimson ends turned in a performance which was decidedly encouraging. Down the field under punts or passes, they were always alert and on the spot. Incipient West Point run backs were cut short by the knife-like tackles of the Crimson-jerseyed wingmen...
Magazine editors who edit for millions know the value of a theme, which, how ever falsely, shows that the many are more fortunate than the few. But so stale and discredited is the theme that alert editors nowadays freshen up the piece by having it told and signed by the "society girl" herself. Last fortnight nickel-weekly Liberty published a story titled...
...What's that?" he asked, always on the alert for what...