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...reports. Typical of this class are cadaverous Ray Tucker, who boils around after Hoover for the New York Telegram; James O'Donnell Bennett, a quick-eared conversationalist, who watches Nominee Smith for the Chicago Tribune; and Edwin S. Macintosh, a Southern gentleman, who, representing the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune, lately got photographed sitting casually next to Nominee Hoover in a campfire circle...
...therefore be censured, but added that the procedure ought to be modified to protect from embarrassment or indignities innocent persons summoned to the Yard for questioning. Promptly the recommended modifications were ordered introduced at Scotland Yard by special fiat of the Home Secretary, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks (Arch-Conservative). The minority report, signed by a Laborite, flayed Scotland Yard for administering an indefensible and scandalous Third Degree, accused police inspectors of collusion and prevarication, and expressed the opinion that Inspector Collins, who grilled Miss Savidge, had deliberately twisted her replies in a misleading manner for purposes of police record...
...sharp fight, too. Dan Moody, young Governor of Texas, sat with Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Beside them were two Wilson Cabinet men, Josephus Daniels and Carter Glass. Opposing, sat truculent young Senator Tydings of Maryland, arch Senator Edwards of New Jersey, solid Senator Wagner of New York and other Wets. Hovering near were Anti-Saloon Leaguers; Captain William H. Stayton of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment; many a busybody, many a crank. Sebastian Spering Kresge, 5-and-10-cent man, was there, presumably to see that the Anti-Saloon League was mak-ing good...
Pheleas Bedard was a mime as well as a singer. His little face was covered with a tufty white beard above which two tiny eyes were set like shoebuttons. He often lifted his eyebrows in an arch grimace, to show that the rhyming words had a double meaning...
...October, 1910, as I recall and his pilot was Arch Hoxsey, of the Wright Brothers aeroplane circus, which was then booking exhibitions about the country. The machine was a Wright biplane with the old type of "warping" wings and two propellers. It had a four cylinder water-cooled engine...