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Every editor and every man with sufficient courage to write letters to the press (in defiance of the American belief that anyone who does so is fit for a lunatic asylum) can do his bit of the "job" whereof Nemesis despairs...
...What his next move is going to be is, I think, fairly clearly adumbrated by the rumors which are being spread--and there is no doubt under whose auspices the spreading is being done. The main rumor has it that there may be a Hapsburg restoration; but circulating a bit more surreptitiously is another rumor, that in order to prepare Austria for the restoration, Prince Starhemberg may find it necessary to proclaim himself Regent as Admiral Horthy did in Hungary...
...free as a stallion, of famed Fancier Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, niece of John Davison Rockefeller Sr.? Or to the magnificent poodle, champion of England, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and France, entered by Mrs. Sherman Hoyt of Manhattan? . . . Finally Judge Jarrett waved the two-year-old fox terrier bitch, Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston, into the winning stall...
Week before Flornell Spicy Bit had been beaten in a specialty show limited to her own breed. No one expects a dog judge to explain which among a hundred fine-drawn points of form and carriage has made him place one perfect purebred above all others. But Judge Jarrett last week departed from custom to comment on his choice: "This is a wonderful fox terrier of the correct size, shown in good coat, put down well and splendidly handled. In fact, she won comfortably...
...champion was imported from England two months ago by Stanley Halle of Chappaqua, N. Y. Last week lay spectators admired the immense dignity, weighty as a Newfoundland's, with which she comported herself in the ring. But Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston did not win their hearts until, at the very moment when Judge Jarrett was naming her U. S. Dog of the Year, she slipped her leash and frisked across the ring as saucily as though her name were...