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Popular sporting figures fall into two categories: those who are popular because they are eccentric and those who are popular because they are not. It would be easy to explain the immense popularity of Betty Nuthall by pointing out how neatly she fits the public conception of the Average British Girl. Her face, pleasant enough to be pretty, is large, reddish, blue-eyed, friendly. Buxom and fair-haired, she speaks in an accent which is neither aristocratic nor cockney, almost giggles when she smiles. Not noisily exotic, like Lili de Alvarez, nor glumly beautiful, like Mrs. Moody, she is described...
...behavior of the Hoover crowds was not all the President's friends wished for. They were respectful but cool. They lifted their hats but not their voices. The silence of the Indianapolis street crowds, which were far smaller than advertised, prompted a local Republican to explain to correspondents that they were tired from long standing and waiting for the President. Remarked an irreverent newshawk: "Well, they're not standing on their hands, are they...
...Winston Churchill has denounced me as 'a half-naked, seditious fakir,' " observed Mahandas Karamchand Gandhi, nine-tenths-naked at Calcutta last week. "It has become the fashion to laugh at my loin cloth. I would like to explain what it means to me and why I wear...
...Washington police department was asked to explain why it did not give foreign embassies and legations better protection. Its chief insisted they got the best attention the force could afford on its limited budget...
Throughout the U. S., suburban residents have been complaining this year of what amounts to a squirrel plague, while rural citizens bemoan that squirrels are near extinction. Naturalists explain that pothunters and automobiles have slain thousands over the countryside, while squirrels in close city trees and garrets are zealously, fondly protected...