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...states by the Coolidge order bringing state officials into Federal revenue service, in New York there are two definite questions confronting the combatants. The one involves the popular referendum contemplated in that state. The other is the Senatorial campaign. And here the wets seem to have the master hand. For the leading Democrats are with them: while the present Republican incumbent, Senator Wadsworth, leans toward them. To turn their unpromising battle in an unpromising state into a crusade, the drys are seeking a champion...
...this one must combine speed, strength and weight, co-ordinating all three to gain the best possible form. When a shot putter learns his art there should be no strain. And yet I consider the shot put to be the most difficult of all field events to master thoroughly. In the hammer and discuss it is possible to gather momentum in the movements inside the seven foot circle. In the shot put the competitor operates from a dead start and must get rid of the missile in the shortest possible time...
...picture is not unamusing. Douglas does himself noble as the master of pantomime and Margaret is there with the ankles when the infield breaks. The lighting is bad and the settings are rather trivial, but the humor is Grade B, domestic, and good for a hot night. But that...
...Johann Sebastian Bach, musician immortal. Musingly reminiscent of medieval Leipzic with Bach playing out his enrapturing arias to the misty Gothic arches of some dim cathedral, sadly reminiscent of the early years of sparse recognition, analogously reminiscent of later days, when devotees trekked across long roads to hear their master's playing, painfully reminiscent when modern renditions betrayed the ancient, were the 1200 who assembled in Bethlehem to attend the annual Bach festival there celebrated...
There is a sort of humor, somewhat fantastic pleasantly inconsequential, of which the undergraduate is a past master. The Lampoon often indulges in it, we know, especially, it would seem late in May. Perhaps the Ibis has been well assuaged with strawberries, or has found the evenings along the Charles pleasing, in any case, his satire is not barbed and he passes by, smiling slightly, as if he realized how absurb college becomes before the June cataclysm...