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...Last week nearly every lawyer agreed that one afternoon in the Supreme Court Chamber, the interstate commerce clause of the U. S. Constitution had been rewritten and enlarged to include many things which for 149 years past it has never held within its few brief elastic words, to wit: "The Congress shall have Power ... to regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations and among the several States and with the Indian Tribes...
Added years didn't dull Rogers' wit. When the famous pump in the Yard was repaired last June, he was asked to have the first drink. In a brief impromptu speech he praised water as a benefit to humanity, saying "it's done so much for navigation...
...describe both ends of it at the same time Reno, for instance, does have cold, snowy win ters; but her summers are never hot. While Reno is summering with coolish days, and cooler nights, Las Vegas in the southern part of the state is experiencing hot dry days; but wit! most of her nights cool. So rare is snow ir Las Vegas, that when a light snow covered the ground one January morning in 1930, many of the grammar-school children, and a few high school youths saw snow flakes for the first time m their lives...
...Calloway, the hi-de-ho man who brought Minnie the Moocher everlasting fame, occupies the stage of the Boston Theater this week along wit a newspaper film, "Woman Wise". Calloway sings and struts to a number of Harlem favorites with a little more restraint than usual, introduces six lindy hoppers, who add considerable zest to the program, and presents a home-made band which nearly steals the show. This group, led by a colored gentleman who is even lazier than Steppin Fetchil, swings high and swings low on a washboard, a couple of toy trumpets, a guitar, a decrepit piano...
...giveaway: "Don't you or do you admire Don Juan? perhaps you like the serious parts best but I have been credibly informed that Lord B. is not really a great poet, have taken a sort of dislike to him when serious and only adore him for his wit and humour. I am by no means a great poetry reader. . . ." Later it comes out that "as my dear Keats did not admire Lord Byron's poetry as many people do, it soon lost its value...