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...answer questions, the House once more resounded with boos and shoos. It is common knowledge that the gallant major looks like a " guilty schoolboy." Jack Jones, a London dockyard Labor Member, conscious of the resemblance, boomed out: " Hold your hand out, you naughty boy." The whole House then burst into uncontrollable laughter...
This is well enough, but such early rattling of campaign machinery is dangerous. Just as Democratic lemon-squeezing is premature, so is a Republican jamboree untimely. Before this, early campaigns have burst into bloom and have been nipped by a frost. If "the boys" climb aboard the Elephant and start lumbering down the race-track now, they may reach the finish before the judges have entered the stand. Then all the brave pageant will be turned to ridicule...
Owing to the unprecedented thaw of snow in the South Kurdistan mountains [Mesopotamia] the Tigris burst its left bank 17 miles north of Bagdad, leaving that city an island in a flooded area of 100 square miles. Both the Zab and the Little Zab rivers between Mosul and Bagdad are pouring their swollen tribute into the waters of the Tigris. It will be impossible to repair the breach until the river has fallen ten feet...
...Glee Club then turned to the realm of folk-song and in the Scotch and Irish ballads they sang with a fire and lilt which delighted the audience. The Bach finale, despite the too liberal use of brasses and organ, was a veritable burst of glory...
Since the exodus of Kaiser Wilhelm, periodic rumors of revolt have kept the German pot a-boiling. German Ministries have ebbed and flowed but only one bubble in the pot has come to the surface the Kapp Pusch of 1920. This bubble was soon burst. In the alchemy of internal turmoil, the characteristics of Prussia have changed places with those of Bavaria and Saxony. Berlin beams with sunny cordiality, while Munich and Dresden are lowering with political ferment...