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This west Texas journalistic standby goes on to explain that the contract for the airing of Galli-Curci's vocal capabilities was signed in the Standard-Times editorial office...
...Democratic victory of 6,421 votes in such a traditionally Republican district set political soothsayers to work. Republicans, badly jolted, attempted, in an awkward unconvincing way, to belittle the election's significance, to explain it away as a local prohibition contest unreflective of national sentiment toward the Hoover administration. Democrats in Washington minimized Prohibition, their party's rock of schism, joyfully saw in the election only an uprising against an outworn partisan cry of "Hoover prosperity," symptomatic of a major economic revolt against Republican diddling on the tariff and unemployment. Wets naturally could see nothing but a resounding...
...production of Macbeth. Oxford's incomparably languid esthetes gathered afterward and drawled their appreciation far into the night-they praised the producer for the simplicity and emotion he had achieved, for his blending of hues, his startling evocation of Banquo's ghost. They devised precious phrases to explain his innuendos...
...police, unpaid since Jan. 1, commenced last week what their chief called "a sledgehammer campaign" against the city's underworldlings. Detectives and patrolmen scooped up night prowlers, street-corner hoodlums, speakeasy patrons, cabaret "artisteés," "guests" at red-light hotels, many a citizen who could not quickly explain his evening's stroll. Within twelve hours 917 assorted characters were arrested, of whom 271 were found to have police records. Revolvers were taken from a score. Soon the police sieve began to leak. More than half of those arrested were released for lack of evidence. Bondsmen and police...
...literary man." Like Il Duce he is said to have a jealous eye upon the Crown, not with a view to seizing it for himself but with intent to make Iceland a republic. Today the King of Iceland is also King Christian X of Denmark. But eager Icelandic-Americans explain: "Iceland is completely independent of Denmark. It is like two corporations in America, one may be a silk mill and the other an iron mine, who pay the same man to be president of both companies, though they are completely independent." Genial King Christian, leaving all his Danish courtiers behind...