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...Tobacco Company secured a collection of six of the Indians which were placed on exhibit in the Convention Club. They declared that they believed that these six were the only ones left in the United States. The Indian in front of Arthur's Smoke Shop, if these figures are correct, is the seventh of the almost extinct species...
...Constitution had been originally written or amended so as to permit two-thirds of both Houses of Congress to over-rule the one judge, just as they may over-rule the one President. The two-thirds of each of these two bodies come nearer being a correct expression of the best judgment of the best people of the forty-eight states and better than could ever be secured in the dilatory, lumber-wagon delays and tardiness of the present method of bringing the laws of the land up to the moral purpose of present civilization, and let us not continue...
...Whether or not I shall be able to act on its advice, many will agree that it presents a correct, constructive and statesmanlike program for dealing with the present emergency. I have received worse suggestions on more important affairs. It is from a true and thoughtful friend of the people, Congressman John F. Miller of Seattle. He wires...
...list is approximately correct except that the League of Nations probably belongs as much, or more, in the list of Democratic taboos as in the Republican list. The League helped to lose a principal election for the Democrats-and that only about four years...
Most women can get the last word. Not all can get the correct word. A national crossword puzzle contest is no place for sisters of Mrs. Malaprop. To that notorious assassin of correct speech, however. Mrs. Ruth F. von Phul, Manhattan housewife and onetime Wellesley College student, last week proved herself no relation. At the national women's crossword puzzle championship, held last week in the auditorium of John Wanamaker's store, Manhattan, she was the first of 200 entrants to hand in a complete construction of the crossword puzzle proposed...