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Lack of change, probably more than any single factor, has spoiled Marion Talley for Manhattan's most musical. When she made her debut at the Metropolitan in 1926, it was in the full glare of blazing publicity. Critics realized that the fuss was none of her making, that presses all over the U. S. were starved at the time for a good human interest story. They were for the most part kind. She had a pleasant voice. She might some day become an artist. And for three years they waited...
...President Calvin Coolidge. The President was understood to have opined that Mr. Koran's case came solely within the jurisdiction of the French courts. To reporters gathered on the White House lawn Publisher Hearst said: "The French authorities are behaving like spoiled children. . . . Why should they make this ridiculous fuss about the publication of their secret agreement with Great Britain, unless there is something in it that they are ashamed...
...their vitality, theirs was an automatic existence. Octavia's frivolous hostess damns them as staunch Tories who nevertheless know nothing and care nothing about politics: "No one down here reads or writes. They eat, sleep, buy and sell horses, walk to the stables and back, tap the thermometer, fuss over their top boots, put ammonia in their baths; and such powers as they've got of conversation are exercised upon their stud grooms...
...most commendable aspects of university life. It is a large happiness, though usually unappreciated, that Harvard upperclassmen do not persecute freshmen: that there is no law calling for universal 'hello's' in the Yard, that one can choose one's friends and enjoy their company without making a fuss about...
When innumerable other admirers had showered the venerable & recently bedridden Dame with daffodils (her favorite flower) and many another birthday tribute, she gave out a message of thanks for "this delightful fuss" which was duly broadcast by British radio...