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...deflate Candidate O'Daniel's sudden, sensational boom by recalling how he sponsored an open-shop movement in Fort Worth. When his rivals taunted him with having paid no poll tax he re plied: "No politician in Texas is worth $1.75." When they called him a "carpet bagger" born in Ohio, raised in Kansas, he snapped back: "Sure. I moved to Texas 15 years ago . . . because I like Texas and want to live here." Awestruck observers predicted that if he did not get nominated by the required majority, Lee O'Daniel's vote total would...
...theatre, only air-conditioned one afloat, designed by Cornelis J. Engelen and Elisabeth de Boer in the shape of half an egg shell, with a rich color scheme of old rose, cerise, dull gold and red copper; Architect Oud's tourist class lounge, with a magnificent gay scarlet carpet...
...that, to keep angry partisans out of each other's reach, two red lines were drawn down the centre of the House of Commons, two swords' lengths (about 6 ft.) apart. When the present building was erected (1840-50), the lines were replaced by strips of red carpet. To this day no member may step off the carpet while addressing the House...
...burns herself, she upsets her tea on her dress-all this happened in her house the other day. . . . Still, these are graceful blunders. The most serious seems to me to be-talking sentiment. I find it much more natural for her to fall down on a perfectly smooth carpet." Witty as Dorothea was, by the time they have finished her private letters most readers will be able to understand why, after eight years of them, Metternich suddenly threw her over and married a young girl not half so aristocratic nor half so harsh...
Japan's Navy Minister, Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, was called on the carpet before his Emperor to explain the Panay bombing and, as senior Japanese naval officer responsible under the commander in chief on the Nanking front, Rear Admiral Teizo Mitsunami, 48, was recalled to Japan in disgrace. From staff officers in Shanghai came fervent but indefinite suggestions of a voluntary subscription among Japanese sailors for the relief of the Panay's victims and an official salute was delivered over the Panay's watery grave. The Nichi Nichi raised a fund...