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...President's health even included freedom from his annual rose fever. ¶Cook Ernest Gilpin, who fries, broils, bakes the President's fish, was called to defend himself in Milwaukee against his wife's charges of cruelty and desertion. Cook Gilpin stayed at Brule, let the court fix a $12-per-week separation allowance...
Therefore when "that bloody rabbit bill!" came up, last week, landed and rusticating Peers bustled up to London, to defend the right of rabbits to be reduced only by authentic sportsmen...
Nathan L. Miller, onetime (1920-22) Governor of New York, famed U. S. Steel attorney, was retained last week by Verner Reed, wealthy onetime Denverite, to defend a butler against a charge of cruelty to animals. The butler was Felix Solomon, who two weeks ago shot and killed a neighbor's monkey that had invaded the Reed estate and was threatening two Reed infants...
...various London clubs which I note are carefully not mentioned by name. That the editor of a paper to which I have for some time subscribed should lower his magazine by allowing some member of his staff to vent his jealousy and malice on men, who, being unnamed, cannot defend themselves ... is inconceivable. If the writer of this paragraph is not a hypocrite, who is? Such sickening cant is unworthy of the attention of any sane and intelligent reader-an uncalled for affront to men of a friendly nation, which could only rouse contempt and resentment. The utter caddishness...
...claims, public works. He pointed out that the Legislature, controlled by Republicans, had only been able to lop $25,000 from his Administration figures, and had tried to add on "unnecessary" appropriations of $219,000, which he had vetoed. He anticipated a political outcry against "extravagance" by promising to defend his fiscal policies and the $16,000,000 increase anywhere, any time...