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...Brokaw's backgammon dice rattled in their cup, fell out upon the table. He reached in his pocket, found $175 and a platinum watch, surrendered them. Then he, Mrs. Brokaw and Darby were herded into a bathroom at revolver's point. The personable young man ran lightly down the stairs and disappeared. He had not bothered with Mrs. Brokaw's jewels...
...Idaho. All the world knows that he is the Senate's supreme orator, that he rides his horse "Governor" alone in Rock Creek Park every morning, that on his head is a mane of shaggy dark hair. All the world does not know that he carries a pocket comb, that he licks his thumb and slicks down his eyebrows, that he scribbles his name on loose paper when listening to other people...
...Secretary of the Interior. When in 1921 President Harding made him Red Cross chairman, Judge Payne (he once sat on the bench of the Cook County Superior Court, prefers that title) stipulated that he would serve without compensation, pay his expenses down to postage stamps out of his own pocket. His Red Cross service has netted him one of the finest collections of foreign decorations in Washington...
...pocket wildcat is 98 Ib. Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson M. P.?not James Ramsay MacDonald's most potent hench-woman but without doubt the most intense person in the whole British Labor Party.? Last week Miss Wilkinson, just landed in Manhattan, set out to spend her British Parliamentary recess on a whirlwind U. S. lecture tour. First object of her wrath: apple selling...
Believing firmly that Sir John Simon must be right, Lord Reading entered the Round Table Conference with a prepared speech in his pocket (TIME, Dec. 1). Excerpt: "You will forgive me if I use a strong expression. ... I say that it is idle to say that at this moment there could be anything like equality of status- constitutional status, that is-in India with the Dominions...