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...After that the organization weakened and, at the time of the war, disappeared completely. LaFollette's campaign for president in 1924 centered the attention of socialist on a LaFollette Club. In the spring of 1928 a club for the support of Norman Thomas for president was discussed. This bore fruit in the fall of the year in the Thomas-for-President Club. After the election the members reorganized to form the Harvard Socialist Club. For a long time the club confined its activities to pamphleteering, speech-making, and generally harrassing the capitalists. It has lately taken to organizing dances...
...container marked Veritable Benedictine D. 0. M., taken from the shopwindow, was found exactly to resemble the French original in bottle and labels. But the two red wax seals bore the faint impress of a coin stamped with the word LIBERTY and below In God We Trust-a U. S. 25? piece, latest issue. Smell deceptive, taste unmistakably raw. Report by the Mirkin Analytical and. Pathological Laboratory, Inc., 133 Second Avenue: "Proof 90; alcohol by volume 45%; extractive matter [i. e. benedictine flavor] 23%; wood alcohol, none. . . . The examined sample is free from harmful ingredients and can be used...
...takes Phyllis to Victor's villa on the Riviera (the "new" and most undesirable part); when she begins to bore him, he returns to London and gathers in his old love Sheila, the ward of a retired confidence man. Presently the harem is augmented by Helen, who plays the harp, laughs adoringly at herself, and is a little too coy for her age and looks. The women, naturally, do not get along at all well with each other; Max is first bored, then driven to despair. The weather is depressing; their landlord-neighbor turns out to fee a terrible...
...solid. Ambitious, he helped pay his way through Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, Iowa) which graduated him in 1898. He studied law at Iowa State University, hung out his shingle at the age of 26 in the town of Algona. Two years later he married Miss Myrtle Call who bore him a son, a daughter. For four years he was prosecuting attorney for Kossuth Co., spoke at Republican rallies, advanced to the Republican State Central Committee. Once he was defeated for the State Legislature. In 1918 he was elected to Congress where he has since served continuously...
...somewhat at woozy ends, Earl Russell turned up at Cambridge. He apologized for not having a written speech prepared to read to the Laborites. He explained about the dog and they forgave him with hearty cries of "Hear, hear!" He began to speak ex tempore about India, and they bore with him. He went home supposing that politically everything was all right, and found that his dog was dead. Meanwhile raging Indian editors from Calcutta to Bombay were tearing out the whole front page, setting up in their biggest, blackest, angriest type such screamers as: EARL RUSSELL VOIDS THE VICEROY...