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...bricks of Boston smile with a certain ruddy charm as the Vagabond strolls to church. He nods to acquaintances, and looks with a wistful hope for the sight of a lone green bud. In the church, he becomes solemn, and regards his image on the glistering toe of his boot, with a feeling of wonder. Falling in with a party of friends, he skips merrily along, not a thought in his head. Like an intellectual kitten, he likens himself to Rousseau; for a moment he toys with the idea of completing this marvelous day by inviting his soul...
...same cage with 16 lions and five tigers, definitely expects, sooner or later, to be publicly eviscerated. Last year he was hospitalized for three weeks after a cat got behind him. But most of the casualties in his cage are internecine, the lions ganging together to maul a lone tiger. Beatty has lost 16 tigers this way, one lion. Except during the filming of The Big Cage when Lloyd's covered both him and his animals, Beatty has never paid a cent for life insurance. With a whip, a kitchen chair, a revolver loaded with blanks, he persuades...
...relief in the existing national emergency in banking." So hastily had the bill been drawn up that no printed copies of it were yet available for members. Their only knowledge of what they were being asked to approve came from a clerk's sing-song reading of the lone text which still bore last-minute corrections scribbled in pencil. Chairman Steagall of the yet unorganized Banking & Currency Committee arose to explain to his bewildered colleagues how H. R. 1491 gave dictatorial banking power to the President, authorized impounding of all gold, and provided for a new currency issue. Members...
...Lone Wolf Tribe (Wrigley's Chewing Gum). An Indian powwow, opening with lugubrious war-whoops which listening children mimic. Gifts to be obtained for chewing gum wrappers: a pin, a book of tribal secrets, Indian regalia...
...metallurgy at M. I. T. With the gist Division he went overseas, a lieutenant of field artillery cited by General Pershing for bravery. Home and married, he took to citrus ranching, first tasted public life in the Arizona Legislature, got himself elected to Congress as his State's lone Representative in 1926. This week he rounded out his third term. A lean, wiry youngster with a quick grin and a ready tongue, Representative Douglas shot up to a commanding Democratic position in the House in six short years. On the Appropriations Committee he made a detailed study of Governmental...