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...hour later, tongue in cheek, he was fibbing to a comely girl with a pert purple hat. "I'm a delegate from Andorra," he said. She looked at him blankly. "It's in the Pyrenees," he explained...
...Reggie McNamara, "Iron Man" of the sport, the Six-Day Bicycle Race in Manhattan last week was his tooth. A friendly, mild-mannered man with a deep scar in his right cheek, McNamara is the son of a New South Wales sheep-rancher. He and his 13 brothers and sisters all learned to ride on the same bicycle. Reggie alone took the sport seriously. He shot kangaroos, sold their skins for money to enter local races, arrived in the U. S. in 1913. By 1920 he was the greatest rider in the world, with records, most of them still unbroken...
...comments on the "Review's" criticism were written "with tongue in cheek," as Mr. Anon, seems to have had a slight suspicion before the rage of the true Irate Subscriber blinded his sensibilities and launched him on a tirade against undergraduate pomposity in general and mine in particular. His unflattering epithets and choice of comparisons seems strangely out of keeping with the "sober and constructive criticism" that he recommends so strongly...
Perhaps this was written with tongue in cheek, but it is open to a more serious interpretation as a statement of the author's real opinion. As such it is a prize example of that absurd undergraduate pomposity which has reduced so-called Undergraduate Opinion to a negligible factor outside the college world. Does Mr. Wade realize that he is merely making a fool of himself--that even an experienced literary critic of mature age and opinions could not make such a statement with impunity...
Shifting his quid of tobacco from one cheek to the other. Senator Tom Connally of Texas last week laid before the Senate a 14,000-word report on the conduct of the 1932 Louisiana Democratic primary which John H. Overton won, which Edwin S. Broussard lost. Those who expected the Democrat-controlled Senate investigating committee to soft-pedal party scandals in the Pelican State were disappointed. Chairman Connally described the Huey Long machine, which elected Mr. Overton, as "vicious, deplorable and damnable." "I advise anyone who thinks he knows something about politics," said the Texan, "to go down in Louisiana...