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...idea of a special election is intensely dramatic, and is the more surprising coming from Mr. Davis. Senator La Follette has the keenest dramatic instinct of all the Presidential candidates, and he was certainly the logical man to propose a special election. Senator La Follette has also set a time limit to the house-cleaning he will do if elected but being less conservative than Mr. Davis has stipulated eighteen months as his maximum. President Coolidge has said nothing about corruption. Being the most conservative of the candidates, he would doubtless place his estimate at four years. Perhaps, since...
...king and emperor, for his opening of Parliament in forty pound robes of state, for a Prince of Wales whose tours furnish reams of copy the British Empire might not be the unit which it is today. Then, too, there is always the danger that if the circus-parade instinct of the British is not appeased the worried tax-payers will refuse to support an institution which, if nothing else, is an expensive luxury...
...DRAMA OF THE LAW,* by Judge Edward Abbott Parry. This is a study of the human instinct which fascinates the public with news of sensational crimes...
...Independents: "One of the greatest exhibitions of an instinct to be good divorced completely from the obligation to be intelligent lies in the tendency of those unripe in American politics to worship mere independence. I confess that I have found that independence is a bad way to get joint action of any kind in real motion. Usually when two independents rally around the banner of independence it results in two banners of independence and then four and then eight. No man or woman in the world is so independent as an independent. As political workers they are usually fanatically unselfish...
...Bank, N., J., sport writers discovered a different scene. In the garage of the Shrewsbury Golf Club, attentively watched by admiring natives, Tunney raced through his work, flew at sparring partners chosen for their speed, appeared to be glorying in every exercise. Critics had said he lacked the "killer instinct." He belied the criticism. Experts had said his left hand would be his greatest asset. He gave promise of justifying the prediction. After the workouts, talk was of golf and real estate, Mr. Tunney's avocations...