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...soft drink, mixed with mechanical generosity, despatch and cleanliness; automatically spouted into the glass after the plunk of the coin. On the second Sodamat model, there were electric lights. The next carbonated its own soda-water. The models installed last week on Broadway had lights, carbonation, electric refrigeration, neat push buttons. Concoctions: orange, grape, lime, ginger ale, cherry, root beer, fruit punch, oriental cream, raspberry...
...bills can always rise again, as long as Congress meets again. There is every indication that the McNary-Haugenites will fight for their bill (or a similar substitute) at the next session of Congress. The Administration, too, announced last week that it would push a new farm relief bill which Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine, Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover, Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, Eugene Meyer, head of the Federal Farm Loan Board, and others have been formulating during the summer...
...softening the glare of its irony, warming it with humanity. The morning of Helen (Mrs.) Rain's funeral, the eaves sparrows quarrel as usual. (She would have liked that.) At John Rain's embarkation, the tugs whisper fuchsia, fuchsia, fuchsia; then cough cocoa, cocoa, cocoa as they push the ship to midstream. During a prayer at sewing circle, Helen Rain peeps covertly at the Women's varying technique-pinching bridge of nose; clasping stomach; kneeling thoroughly with head on chair-seat to present, Mrs. Rain thought, "a most remarkable God's-eye view...
...fence, bend your knees, spring lightly into the air when you feel the tug of the balloon. You will sail over the fence so easily and land so gently that you will be surprised. Barns and trees can be surmounted with more vigorous leaps, usually requiring a light second push-up with the tip of the toe on the barn's roof or on the tree's outlying branches...
...anti-Semitism ... is taken by the politicians to be his first step towards entering the 1928 campaign for the Presidency. The circumstance that he made the Hearst newspapers his vehicle for the dissemination of his change of heart is interpreted as indicating that William Randolph Hearst is about to push the candidacy of the flivver king. . . . Obviously it would have been embarrassing for the publisher of a chain of newspapers, greatly depending upon department store advertising, to appear as the champion of the country's chief exponent of anti-Semitism...