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Last week, darkly, like so many Guy Fawkeses, the Conservative conspirators sprang their plot. Scheduled on the evening's calendar were three thoroughly unimportant bills. Seeing that only a handful of somnolent numbers dotted the Conservative benches, several Liberals crept off to bed. An uncomfortable premonition made Prime Minister MacDonald instruct Labor whips to excuse no Labor M. P.'s until the evening's business was finished...
...than a plain stone of standard design. So Mrs. Wiley picked Rock Creek Cemetery near Washington for the burial. Then the War Department changed its Arlington rules for her. In the section called "Field of the Dead" she last week buried her husband with full military honors. On the plot she will put a large memorial, engraved: "Father of the Pure Food Laws...
...gentleman blotto," is a Prohibition agent whose wife runs a speakeasy. Beautiful but thick Annabel Cloy imagines herself a poet, and is overjoyed when Casanova, pretending to be a publisher, says he will print her Poems of Passion, is enraged when she discovers his duplicity. From this out, the plot becomes more and more revue-worthy. In the end Casanova, in a vain attempt to regain Annabel's affections, goes deliberately to jail by selling liquor on the street. His example becomes popular...
...dipsomaniac. A paternal uncle, the nurse suspects, is a villain who is scheming to get control of the family fortune, has his sister-in-law under his thumb, has bribed the .doctor to let the children die. Nurse Hart, with the help of her bootlegger swain, circumvents the plot, rescues the family at the cost of her professional reputation. Night Nurse has evidently been written by one familiar with nursing practice. It digresses long enough to give a detailed version of a nurse's training. The book is also notable in having as its hero a bootlegger, a mighty...
...plot revolves about three persons--the young Italian composer who likes to keep his audience waiting, and finds that temperament has serious after-effects; Jan. a harpist, a born trouper and a thoroughly amusing one; and Tad. scion of an old New York family, who behaves is the traditional manner of the reprobate sons whom we have grown to expect in American fiction. How the troupe travels the rocky road to Broadway, only to find the inevitable catastrophe awaiting them, and how the heroine appears at the end in a tent show somewhere in Georgia--all this is told nimbly...