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Bluffing Bluffers was a minor grain in the Christmas grist. It started out to laugh at politics-usually not a difficult thing to do. After the first act, it slipped into melodramatic farce with all the values torn into broad comic strips and hurled heedlessly across the footlights. The tearers were a downtrodden doctor who sets himself up as the bunk boss of a small town, and a rich and vapid widow; the opposition was the Irish Imperator of the village. Occultism is included and a fake Hindu servant. Most of the acting was negligible...
When asked what probable effect this election would have on the plans of the Monarchists to restore the Hohenzollerns to the throne of the German Empire, Professor Lord said. "The elections seem to reflect pretty accurately the still bewildered and uncertain state of mind of the German people, still torn between old loyalties and new ideals. Now that the Dawes Plan is actually in force and Germany's political and economic situation, so appalling only a year ago, is now beginning to improve rapidly, the moderate parties would seem to have some chance of convincing the German people that their...
...Premiers Giovanni Giolitti and Vittorio Orlando definitely ranged themselves on the side of the Opposition-that hopelessly torn group whose disgruntled Socialist members (150 of them) have refused to attend the session, as a protest against Fascismo. Ex-Premier Salandra voted for the Government. Many notable speeches were made...
...first place Mr. du Fais would do away with all old buildings which have outgrown their usefulness and are merely kept for the sake of tradition. In this class he places Grays Hall and Boylston Chemical Laboratory. If they were torn down he thinks that their site would be the ideal location for the proposed Memorial Church or Chapel, since the chapel would be placed in approximately the center of University life...
...could Captain Greenough's team ever defeat, such a combination as this? The answer to the question is not lacking. The Nassau combination which had torn the grass off in the Stadium a week ago, slipped and floundered vainly on its own sod. Gone was the vicious charge; gone was the impregnable defense: the Tiger had become a purring kitten...