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...competent supporting cast, the saturnine Edna May Oliver squeezes the maximum of merriment out of a shrewd supply of neatly satiric lines...
...total number of paid admissions for the game is approximately 51,500. Including the regiment of officials named above, the mmbers of the rival squads, and those lucky souls who have been able to get the coveted sideline passes, the crowd at the Stadium will attain its maximum capacity...
...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 he is the only person in a position to know, he thinks that no length of time would be sufficient...
...Brookley in a Curtiss R-6, and Lieut. Rex Stoner in a Curtiss PW-8-A were the first three to fly to a point ten miles behind the start and ascend in the customary "tower" from which the racers plunge down to the starting pylon at maximum speed. Last to leave the ground was Captain Burt E. Skeel, his 520-horse Curtiss R-6 leaping up with a great burst of power. Said the crowd: "There goes the winner...
Thereupon, Mr. Hill clapped his hands and rejoiced. In Washington he aims to belong to the best social clique; at home, he aims to satisfy a moist constituency. For four years, according to his own statement, he has been trying to obtain a ruling on the maximum percentage of alcohol which is allowable under the Volstead Act according to a section which permits the manufacture of "non-intoxicating cider and fruit juices." He declared himself dissatisfied with the answers he received from the Prohibition Enforcement Unit. In September, a year ago, he notified Prohibition officials that he was about...