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Then came the real cracker of the Doumergue speech, a demand for immediate constitutional reforms...
...philosophical anecdote, the hushed heart throb. Having mastered his technique he proceeded to turn out He Went Away for a While and The Beginning of a Mortal. Now appears The Second House from the Corner, written in the same whimsical, speculative vein, with the same familiar snatches from the cracker barrel of homespun philosophy. Some of the fragments are pretty stale and moldy. Author Miller writes about himself after the manner of a daily columnist. Now he has built himself a house. He serves up 34 disconnected pieces about the new edifice and the community in which...
...blossoms, scarcely more spectacular than the buds. Last week's New Yorker, going to press before the four-weeks-overdue plant had put out its first blossom, beat Manhattan newspapers by printing a cartoon of a silk-hatted committee timing the blooming of a century plant with the cracker, "It's been a hundred years and ten minutes exactly...
...something." Asked what he thought of the phrase "Assistant President" applied to himself, he replied: "____ ____.* Now let's talk of something else." A reporter asked him about his reputation as an eater of okra. "Ah, okra!" said Statesman Baruch. "Okra is never good unless it breaks like a cracker...
...Affectionate Viennese nickname combining Millimeter and Metternich-Clemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince Metternich-Winneburg, Austria's great 19th Century Chancellor. A current Vienna cracker last week was that a new issue of stamps will show Dollfuss' picture, lifesize. Dollfuss has made it known that he enjoys jokes about his size...