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...Friends of Mrs. Hoover last week smiled at a picture of her published in the London Illustrated News. The caption said: "It is reported that 'I want to be a background for Bertie' is Mrs. Herbert Hoover's chief ambition ... A possible musical refrain, 'I want to be a background for Bertie...
...earliest, after three years of absence from the Yard and it is ladle to try and speed up a development which has all the symptoms of a natural process. Those devoted to collecting the back debts of the University would do well to admit the paradox and refrain from killing by forced cultivation a plant that will shortly grow to luxuriant productivity by itself...
Nominee Curtis went to Raleigh, N. C., Martinsburg, West Va., and Wilmington, Del. Prohibition was his burden, immigration his refrain. He next entered New Jersey. If Democrats had been annoyed by Nominee Hoover's refusal to acknowledge Nominee Smith's presence in the campaign, Nominee Curtis made amends. He referred to "the dear Governor" and to "the gentleman from New York who thinks he is running for President on the Democratic ticket." The further Curtis itinerary lay through Connecticut, Massachusetts, upper New York, western Pennsylvania, into Ohio...
Then followed, succinctly, the story of the Salt Creek lease, winding up with the refrain of the whole speech, a phrase from the Republican platform: "The record of the present Administration is a guarantee of what may be expected of the next...
Also there was a song which Will Rogers sang together with Andy Tombes. La-de-da was the refrain of the song and its name was the Lard Song; in the course of it, Andy Tombes interrupted his singing to ask Will Rogers whether he had heard about the Scotchman who went to the whippet races. "Yes," said Rogers, "and he bet on the hare...