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These same "nitwits" seem to have entirely lost sight of the fact that the ones standing to gain far more than any veteran with the passing of this particular bit of legislation known as the Independent Offices Bill are the politicians who passed it, and who, incidentally, are not making the favorable impression on all veterans that they imagine. So far as veterans are concerned, the Spanish War Veterans, the veterans' organization known as the "U. & W. V." (very few, if any of whom are Legionnaires), are far more interested in the passing of this bill than any Legionnaire...
...about horses themselves are a strange mixture of sentimentality and practicality. "I love horses," he says, "and I'll always breed them. They're like children, needing the same care and treatment, subject to all sons of ailments. . . ." He thinks he was fondest of a filly named Bit of White, whose only claim to fame was a track record at Louisville. "She was like a bit of Dresden china, a friendly, intelligent, perfectly mannered little lady...
That lumbering hulk, American justice, which is sometimes fortunate enough to crawl within seven years of its shadow and which has long since all hered in to disgrace abroad is undergoing another bit of humiliation in the courthouse at Dedham these days...
...have gone through the threes of passing off their science requirement can attest to the necessity of either revising or abolishing the present requisites. For the most part the science taken by those students who have no special interest in the field is only provocative of the slightest bit of scientific thinking and is definitely a bore to the uninterested student...
...H.D.C. put on their spring madhouse and a madhouse it was. Lacking any tangible central theme and leaving the people at the end of the first half of the play with the uncomfortable feeling that they didn't know what it was all about, the drama certainly demanded a bit of courage...