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...Earl of Birkenhead (onetime F. E. Smith), Secretary of State for India: "Last week, in London, the Weekly Dispatch announced that my daughter, Lady Eleanor, 'beautiful, sophisticated,' had become its society editor...
...circus troupe to a senator's party, and to sing Rocked in the Cradle with a freight-yard detective, and to be very unwell on a mule-ship. Author Connell simply wants his hero to do those things and the hero does them with the utmost whimsical dispatch. There are some grand Irish moonlight and love talk in the last chapter too. Author Connell is a literary first cousin of both Funnyman Robert Benchley and Romancer Donn Byrne...
This is not the first time that Louisville has cried "mad dog." Last autumn, an ecstatic writer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote: "Once Kentucky had charm and individuality. Now it is hard to distinguish it from Kansas. The hills are full of antievolutionists, prohibitionists and reformers, and the Ku Klux Klan's fiery crosses burn under the walls of its abandoned distilleries. . . ." Enraged, fuming, two-fisted Governor W. J. Fields telegraphed the St. Louis paper: "Your vicious and unwarranted editorial attack upon Kentucky . . . indicates that you are either a liar or a fool, and I am inclined...
Last March, as a result of an investigation brought about by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the House voted, 302 to 62, that Judge English of East St. Louis, Ill., should face an impeachment trial on charges of "usurpation of powers and other high misdemeanors." Among other things, Judge English is charged with illegal manipulation of bankruptcy funds, with using profane language from the bench, with threatening attorneys and juries. Although his resignation does not openly admit his guilt, it is an admission that he is unwilling to risk an impeachment trial...
According to a New Haven dispatch, two 15-piece orchestras will furnish the music. These will be Wittstein's Yale Prom orchestra and Bolton-Cipriano's orchestra from the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club. There will also be a tea dance at the Commons after the game lasting until 7 o'clock...