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Crunching ominously, the Conservative political steam roller demolished a Laborite motion implying "no-confidence...
...Note--This is the first of a series of letters discovered by a graduate student in the stacks of Widener Library, thus proving that occasionally the stack privilege is worthy its name. The letters are unretouched and have been censored by three Methodists, a Baptist, and a Holy Roller.) April...
Baldwin Soothing. Since the debate was waxing toward midnight, Premier Stanley Baldwin arose to turn on the Government's Conservative steam roller in defense of Sir Austen. Humorously he twitted Mr. George with "clothing himself in an air of lachrymosity" and basing his accusations upon "necromantic divinations of conversations which never occurred" (i.e., between Briand and Chamberlain). Finally he spread soothing words as with a trowel; implied that the League was none the worse for its "manifestation of human nature not wholly of a happy kind...
...fireworks over, a vote was taken. As the Baldwin steam roller crunched, Sir Austen was sustained 325 to 136. None the less, his prestige has undoubtedly suffered. Quoth a wag: "Sir Austen may yet drown in his own pail of white-wash...
...have heard about the lady who kissed the cow. Miss Moore as the mischievous and often penitent Irene starts as a poor but Irish heroine and frolics through to the arms of her handsome millionaire lover. She has her troubles and her tears, but they are happy troubles, like roller-skating home from naughty men in wicked cabarets; and smiling tears like Irish tears should be. George K. Arthur as the effeminate modiste-shop proprietor provokes many of these, as well as a giggle or two, and besides adds considerable humor of his own to this playfully diverting comedy