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...Looks a bit balmier" was the succinct remark which covered the entire subject in an adequate and expressive fashion...
...newspaper mind [which] knows all about the day's happenings in a jumbled, chaotic sort of way" and does not think. Nor should ministers permit themselves, Editor Leach admonished, to organize their sermons, as so many do, "in about the same way that newspapers are organized [with] a bit of politics, a bit of scandal, a bit of love, a bit of hate and a little bit of religion...
Speaker's Wit. The House was treated to a characteristic bit of its Speaker's wit just after the Revenue Act was passed. Seeing that the Republican tax program had been defeated in the voting, Democrat Garner made "a parliamentary inquiry." Why, he asked, should a majority of the Representatives appointed to confer on the Tax bill (when it comes back to the House from the Senate), not represent the majority which had just passed the bill? Though it was dinner time, and he loves to dine, Speaker Nicholas Longworth smiled at this delay. "For the time being...
...piano. There are harmonies more tempting than any of the verses. They fairly cry to be sung and the arrangements come from such composers as Leo Sowerby, Henry Joslyn, Alfred G. Wathall, Edward Collins, Ruth Porter Crawford, Lillian Rosedale Goodman. Some of them, to be sure, are a bit elaborate for the earthy tunes that inspired them but for the most part they are well adapted. Any complaints will come from the specialist in ditties and native folk music. They will mourn omissions, but the minstrel's own apologia must answer them: "I should like to have taken...
...blow to Boston, if such a conclusion be one, is slight compared with the condition of Chicago which is described as "not a bit higher on the cultural level than Dayton, Tenn." One is tempted to think that Dr. Potter's inferences may have some deeper basis of judgement than contributions to the maintenance of municipal libraries. Boston may be the object of prejudice in his mind. Since Dayton and Chicago are linked together one is tempted to infer that the Dayton fear of the British have some common origin. Perhaps Boston may be taken to task for its book...