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...mustache and wearing horn-rimmed Harold Lloyd lunettes. Correspondents reported that L'Americain "looked more like an American than ever."* The reason pugnacious M. Tardieu & friends of the Right abstained from voting against M. Herriot & friends of the Left was because they interpreted his "plan" as a direct thrust at Germany...
...Mysterious Powerless Phenomenon" in which Governor Roosevelt, hugging Miss 1932, sped by the Party Powers in an old buggy with empty shafts. Because his work is widely syndicated, Cartoonist Darling considers it his prime duty to jest on all subjects, to produce a smile before delivering a partisan thrust...
...decisions of the two teachers of law, the world situation has altered profoundly. It is now an open question whether democracy and the system of jurisprudence which is associated with it can meet successfully the ever more difficult tasks which the momentous economic and political forces of our day thrust upon them. It is no longer sufficient that a law school transmit the accumulated body of legal knowledge and give proficient training in legal practice. If the bar and bench are not to be a dead hand upon the process of social and economic readjustment and invention with which...
...Hall "heartily" endorsed the Roosevelt-Garner ticket and the State was startled by a report that, if ousted, Mayor Walker would run for Governor this autumn. Sheathed in this move, if made, would be something that Governor Roosevelt does not like to think about: the knife that Tammany could thrust into the back of his New York City vote for the Presidency...
...killing floor he is hoisted up on a giant wheel by his left foot, delivered to a conveyor. Head down, tongue out, tail hanging down his back, squealing in terror, he is carried along until a husky man with a spear-like knife makes the deft throat-cutting thrust which kills him. Then an intricate web of knives scrapes off his hair, Government inspectors slice his neck glands to look for signs of tuberculosis. A knife cleaves off his head. Another knife sweeps his insides as clean as his skin. A twist of tweezers and his toenails go clattering...