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...quite platonically in love with the Princess, and Mercedes, a dancer, was in love with Valentin-and oh gosh, but life was complicated in Neuberg! But if you like imaginary countries- and secret passages-and duels-and hasty rides through the night-and all the grand old blood-and-thunder- here's by far the best romance of the Anthony-Hope-George-Barr- McCutcheon stripe that has appeared for lo, these many long years...
Governor Smith has finally scaled the doom of the Mullan-Gage Act and set the seal in no uncertain terms as to his opinion of its fountain-head, the Volstead Act. Yet however much Wets may shout with joy or Drys thunder against the "deep damnation of this taking off". Federal enforcement, increased and strengthened, will continue in New York State and the status quo will be little deranged. Certainly Governor Smith is a close enough student of Constitutional law not to endorse an act which would have a flavor of secession, as some zealous prohibitionists have claimed of this...
Georges Clemenceau: " I superintended the production of my own play, The Veil of Happiness, at its revival in Paris. I reproved an actor who was playing the part of a god: ' Is that the way a god should speak ? When a god grumbles it is like thunder...
...distant noon pricked this loinantie bubble of would-be anthology. The meteor proved to be nothing but a negro, dressed like Mephistopheles in crimson tights and tunic and hitched to a parachute. Which does not mean that the awful voices of Mounts Borah, La Follette and Johnson will not "thunder as before...
...present a united party attitude to the people at the next election." So runs the Democratic propaganda. Experts in political strategy point out that this is a skilful move to drive the Republicans back into the extreme isolationist position and keep them from stealing League of Nations thunder from the Democrats by advocating the World Court...