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...Significance. The only significance is: you will absolutely spoil this delightful bit of whimsy if you go looking for any. It is told with all the round-eyed solemnity of a child's tale, and it was never meant to be analyzed or explained. Where the substance of the same author's Lady into Fox (TIME, Apr. 14, 1923) was fantasy, this is satire, deft and charming. Only, if you make the fatal mistake of trying to find out what it means, you will prick the bubble. For it means nothing at all and is a delight for just that...
...running for Mayor by enthusiastic women friends, who feel that the town's politics need dusting off. In endeavoring to wage a clean campaign she commits most of the sins known to professional office-seekers. The author has very astutely led her to lie, cheat and practically embezzle, while bit by bit her ideals are chipped away...
...first round the flyweight drew blood from the lip of the blond. Each succeeding round Pancho opened up the cut with a clump or a clout and the blood spurted down the Buddy jaw. Each time Bud came back for more punishment, the human flea bit him. But he remained thoroughly game...
...slender-wristed one's score was 286 and the last difficult hole was before him, a hole with a dear little windswept pond in front, a pond in which the last player's ball had found its watery grave, a wind that was decidedly annoying. He was a bit nervous...
BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK?Vastly beguiling bit of foolery, spanking the tired business man in no uncertain terms...