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...regardless of the cost to the house or to the party of which he is a prominent feature, if not always a bright ornament." The Chancellor made no reply, sat white and stern as Conservatives booed, Laborites cheered and Lady Cynthia Mosley, M. P. went out for a large cushion, brought it back into the House, lay down on a bench and ostentatiously went to sleep. (Her husband, Sir Oswald, resigned from the Cabinet after quarrelling with Chancellor Snowden ? TIME, June 2.) As the bitter night wore on members of all parties sprawled and snored on their benches, awakened...
Best shot (from one of Cartoonist Peter Arno's drawings in The New Yorker) : a young lady and gentleman, the latter car rying the rear cushion of an automobile, arriving at a gas station, "to report a stolen...
...Joseph Hall of San Francisco, 44-year-old cue-wielder: the national amateur three cushion billiard championship, beating one Frank Fleming 50 to 37 in 78 innings in a dull, cautious game in French Lick, Ind. ¶ The Argentine polo team-Manuel Andrada, Jose and Juan Reynal, Alfredo Harrington-handicapped at 23 goals, with a $250,000 string of ponies: their tenth straight game on the Pacific coast against teams of famed U. S. stars including 8-goalers Elmer Boeseke and Eric Pedley. ¶ Primo Camera, Italian brobdingnagian: a bout with one Frank Zavita in Jacksonville, Fla., by a knockout...
When the stockmarket crashed last year President Hoover looked ahead to just such an unemployment crisis as befell the country. He tried to cushion its full impact by inducing Big Business to expand their construction activities, to keep as many workers as possible busy. Last week he conferred long with Secretary of Labor Davis, Secretary of Commerce Lament, then spoke out for the first time on the results of his economic endeavors...
...presiding officer?an odd fellow who technically does not sit in the chamber while he presides, but must be just outside within an imaginary circle on a large red cloth "sack" or wool-stuffed cushion...