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...Senate Committee investigating the oil scandals summoned Mr. Vander-lip to Washington. He was asked to testify as to the source of these statements...
...Prominent in the Rotary Club of Literary New York Alexander Woollcott has added a species of small tippet to his facial equipment. What does one call such a beard when it rests on the under reaches of the lower lip? At any rate, the dramatic critic of The New York Herald, after illness, a trip abroad and a sojourn in Vermont, has acquired a new beard with which to astonish early first night audiences in New York City...
Next day, in sweltering weather, the party crossed Missouri. Every time that the President appeared on the platform it was in the broiling sun, and he became badly sunburned-especially his lips. So in the afternoon at Kansas City he was obliged to stay indoors and cancel engagements for golf, a review of Boy Scouts and a visit to the War Veterans' Hospital. General Sawyer applied ice packs to the President's lip, so that he might speak in the evening, and Mrs. Harding reviewed the Boy Scouts. After dinner the President spoke on the railroad problem...
...none other than Hard Work. Not content with merely duplicating the efforts of past years, the board has added new features which we are told will greatly increase the usefulness of the volume. Although, to quote the old proverb, "There is many a slip twixt the out and the lip", we are confident that the "Register" has positively taken a new lease on life...
...nation, whose creed is "it pays to advertise" and whose existence is bound up in the news of the hour. We pass from thrill to thrill almost without pause; and the greatest thrill of all is to know that one's name is in every newspaper and on every lip. No less than eight people, for example, have confessed in turn to the murder of the banker Elwell, and each in turn has been proved a liar after a day or two of dazzling front page existence. Is it any wonder that serious people advocate a jail sentence for false...