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...five billions for relief was too much, that the surest way of killing it was to boost the figure so much higher that the President could not accept it. Shrewd Huey Long, striving to wreak his vengeance on the Administration, succeeded at the last minute in transferring a critical "pair." Result: the prevailing wage amendment won 44-to-43-24 Democrats deserting the President, all but four Republicans deserting the principles of economy...
...belch, a passage in which Hebe discovers a container full of paper cups. Alan Mowbray plays the inventor with admirable presence of mind. Meg, the stone girl who becomes his accomplice when he converts her into flesh & blood, is Florine McKinney. Typical shot: Venus de Milo experimenting with a pair of arms...
...figures drawn from undergraduate models with technical advice from coaches and team captains, Artist Yarrow's works depict a relay race in which Princeton has the inside track and a Yale runner has collapsed; a many-muscled Princeton gymnast about to rise straight in the air toward a pair of rings; a crew race on Carnegie Lake in which Harvard's No. 4 is catching a crab; a Princeton swimmer with the enormous feet of his kind; a hockey game suggestive of a ballet; a baseball game in which a Princeton player has obviously just hit a home...
...thieves with an old-fashioned puff of snuff. And by turning out the lights he tricked them into his cellar when they appeared at his manse in search of the loot he took from them. With the culprits incarcerated below stairs, His Lordship has time to disentangle a pair of lovers from the plot, send them off toward the altar before the curtain falls on this amusing dramatic puffball...
...running up eight points on the startled Elis before a single blue shot touched the hoop. Then the Blue team swung into action, and with long Tommie Wilson controlling the tap, Bud, Miles and his cohorts rang up twelve quick markers. Charley Kollinites tied it up with a pair of field goals as the half ended...