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...which seems to delight in an occasional salty phrase like that one, might like to be reminded of "as pert as a barn rat" which would be an ideal descriptive locution for Simone Simon, and not bad for some of Mussolini's poses. If you are asked to explain that one, I'll be glad to take it apart...
...explain the discrepancy in these reports...
...Found unconscious beside a country road near Paris, Tenn., was one of six as pirants for Senator George Berry's seat from Tennessee. Candidate Edward Carmack "could not explain" who had beaten...
...private industry to undertake pump-priming when the Government cut down. Certainly no private industry primed the pump less than the utilities; they had held up capital expenditures since the start of the New Deal's public-ownership and "death-sentence" deals (see below). Utility officers, in turn, explain the estimated dam of $3,000,000,000 in such expenditures on grounds that they and the investing public are too scared by the Government's power policy to put more money into the business...
...Silver Magnet Grant Shepherd does not answer these questions, or explain exactly what finally happened to the mine. Midway through his book he begins to write less about the lost pleasures of Batopilas, and more about long vacations, about sprees, about squabbles with mean-spirited natives, about the petty thievery among workmen, the stupidity of newcomers, the pusillanimity of the Wilson administration, etc. His story becomes a monotonous recital of how the Shepherd brothers put tough customers in their places, of his political opinions and longings for good days long-past. But if its final impression is one of confusion...