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...ancient curse, this poverty in the midst of plenty. For the most ardent meeting-goer, unless he be a Superman or a Mandrake, has no choice but to go to the U.T. in utter despair...
...said good times were coming. A kite of brilliant feathers perched on his bow and dazzled his enemies' eyes out. Then one day in 660 B.C. he acceded to the world-throne-i.e., Japan's; and the cloudless blue weather of that day made him utter four cryptic words which now are taken to mean that Japan should expand to the ends of the earth: "Eight directions...
...After all this was over, didn't you burn with righteous indignation? Didn't every fibre of your being vibrate with rage? How did you react to the horror, the heinousness, the chicanery and the utter fraud that was done, Mr. Stoebling...
...famed 1916 boner pulled by Candidate Charles Evans Hughes: in California he forgot to shake the hand of Hiram Johnson, thus lost Johnson, California, and the election. Candidate Wendell Willkie took no chances on his California tour (TIME, Sept. 30). Overlooking Senator Johnson's entrenched conservatism. his utter isolationism, Candidate Willkie praised the Senator where he thought it would do the most good-in California...
...Lynn Werner to sue the estate of Daniel J. Leary, late lumber baron, father of international bachelor-girl Cosmopolite Beth Leary, for $1,750,000 in securities which she claimed was given her in token of "our beautiful friendship." Commented Leary's executors, replying to her suit: "Baseless . . . utter fraud typical of the immoral . . . relationship out of which it has grown...