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Garland's sense of humor, robust if not very uproarious, is strong enough to include himself. When he was a young man still trying to pierce the carapace of Boston, he overheard someone saying of him, " 'He's a diamond in the rough,' a fact which I myself dimly appreciated." Several times Garland met famed Humorist Finley Peter Dunne (Mr. Dooley), but "he was very serious in his talks with me, perhaps because he felt something depressing in me. We discussed weighty things most weightily...
...received many ballots, Dry families none. Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals advised a New Jersey audience to vote as many times as they could in the poll, then rather lamely withdrew the advice when he found a newsgatherer had overheard him. In the Senate, Washington's Senator Jones, author of the "Five & Ten" law, got up to say: "Prohibition has nothing to gain and everything to lose in this poll. . . . It would not be wise for people who believe in Prohibition to take part in it." It did not seem...
...long arms who held up the sky when it was falling but took his time about it. (Said he: "Hurry isn't for me. Hurry is no worry of mine.") The conversation is irrelevant and entertaining, the kind of children's cross questions and crooked answers sometimes overheard by invisible adult ears...
Resigned. Robert ("Droch") Bridges, author (Overheard in Arcady, Bramble Brae), journalist; from the editorship of Scribner's, having been with the magazine 43 years, for 16 as its editor-in-chief...
...Positive Tardieu by laying down a similar hand for the U. S. when enough cards are on the table there can begin, not the game, but a shuffle and first deal. "Pertinax" (Andre Geraud), pungent correspondent of L'Echo de Paris, wired to his paper: "Secretary Stimson was overheard to re-mark : 1 wish this conference would waste a good deal more time...