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Approval of the often-beaten Norris amendment to abolish "lame duck" Congresses...
...said: "When the American eagle has gained its ascendancy, as your great country has, its talons are tucked up underneath its body and not stretched out like a duck's feet. It is the symbol of might and dignity and yet the designer has given the grand old bird the feet of a duck...
Patriots boiled, not at politely perspicacious Ornithologist Knight, but at poetically licentious Hermon MacNeil, designer of the eagle which has been stamped on U. S. quarter-dollars since 1916. "Feet of a duck!" patriots muttered. "Designer MacNeil should be shown a flying eagle and made to try again...
...seems a shame to waste a fine actress such as Blanche Yurka on such a trivial play. Those who saw her in "The Wild Duck" or in "Flamlet" with John Barrymore, know her worth. In the piece at hand she plays the mother, and needless to say does an excellent bit. But it is a far from suitable part. The rest of the cast is passable, the playing of the son Juan by Mervin Williams, and the portrayal of the red-hot Nubi by Suzanne Caubaye being most worthy of mention...
...Ibsen's few boisterous comedies; 3) Ghosts (1881), in which a son is smitten by Fate in the guise of inherited venereal disease; 4) An Enemy of the People (1882), wherein the honesty of one man makes him the enemy of ordinary folk; 5) The Wild Duck (1884), a play about a sensitive girl who commits suicide when she learns that she is illegitimate; 6) Rosmersholm (1886) in which a husband and wife and "other woman" hound each other until they all commit suicide...