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...Ernest Lee Jahncke journeyed to Wooster, Ohio, last week and told the Young Men's Republican Club: "The present Congress opened with loud yells for leadership emanating from the Democratic side. The President has supplied so much leadership that our friends of the opposition are just a little bit dizzy. . . . His program for economic reconstruction is a triumph. . . . Democratic members are entitled to full credit for their share in the proceedings . . . but, had they flouted his policies and presented no program of their own, they would have received as violent a rebuke at the hands of the American people...
...other. Lionel is Guerchard. a growling, hobbling, blinking chief of detectives whose duty it is to snare an amazingly subtle thief named Arsene Lupin. Asked how he proposes to do it, Lionel Barrymore snarls: ''Oh, I'll stumble around, growl a little, limp a little bit." It is a very convincing speech, because this is what Lionel Barrymore has been doing in the cinema for 15 years...
...Manhattan restaurant Miss Alice Weigel, eating succotash, bit something hard, found it was a bright new dime. Angry, Miss Weigel called her waiter, showed him the dime she had found in her succotash. "Thank you," said the waiter, smiling as he departed with the dime in his pocket...
...selections were stimulating--full of humor and dash. However, I am of the opinion that the lecture might have been even more refreshing, although not so unified, if at least two or three introductions by different men to the same writer's works has been mixed up a bit. At least it would have been more of a game for the student to locate and tag the lecture...
Flea Cousin Charlie has been taught to push about an infinitesimal ball. Flea Napoleon trudges along with a small wire cannon in tow. Flea Reuben tugs a roller. Prompted with a bit of broom straw, Napoleon, Reuben and Cousin Charlie are encouraged to race. There are, in addition, six dancing fleas. Rudolf from Hapsburg operates a tiny carousel, but one suspects that the Professor's favorite is "Caesar and his Roman chariot...