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...such backstage talk. There were some hurt prides in House and Senate but the President still held the whip hand over the Capitol. The pressure of public opinion was as strong as ever in his favor. Party patronage had yet to be distributed in a big way. The swift tempo of the first few weeks was over with the passage of emergency legislation but the change in Congressional pace did not signify a change in spirit. Most observers were agreed that the President could get anything he wanted throughout the special session...
...lead in the first period, Toronto would let the game go, take its chance on winning three of the remaining four, all to be played on their home rink. The excited Madison Square Garden crowd was throwing newspapers, programs, orange peels, cigarets, candy-wrappers on the ice when the swift pendulum that is the pattern of a close hockey game paused for a moment as Bun Cook of the Rangers scored the first goal. Cecil Dillon of the Rangers scored the second, a minute later, before the first period was three-quarters over. That settled the game. Discouraged as well...
Cardinal Hayes was swift to approve, swift to perceive what a stroke of churchmanship the plan was. For on Passion Sunday morning in Rome, Pope Pius XI was, with highest ceremonial, to inaugurate the extraordinary Holy Year which he announced last Christmas and explained last month as a means for "spiritual raising up of hearts and minds . . . universal concert of good works and prayers. . . . We propose to pray every day and we invite everyone to do so with us." Coupling President Roosevelt's New Deal with the Pope's Holy Year would be churchmanship indeed. And no church...
...William Morris did, Author Linklater manages to give his bare and lusty chronicle an authentic primitive manner without ever putting the reader to sleep. Though his tale is at times reminiscent of the over-factual Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it lifts towards the end to a narrative as stripped and swift as a Viking long ship with the oars going all together...
Howard Thurston. Magician. Ham (Swift...