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...Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, famed Washington hostess and member of the Women's Safety Committee of the American Automobile Association, charged her with driving 32 m. p. h.. carrying an expired license. Next Socialite Sportswoman Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, was picked up for driving on the wrong side of a bridge at 40 m. p. h. While Mmes Harriman and Whitney awaited trial, the police stopped a fourth speeder, collected $8 from Professor Anton Lang Jr, of Georgetown University, son of the one-time Christus of the Oberammergau Passion Play...
...quiet little Italian who never used a score. Toscanini went to the stand in a borrowed frock coat many sizes too big, conducted Aida completely from memory. Lately an aged Brazilian critic attempted to describe the perfection of that performance. Toscanini's comment: "Ah, but he is wrong. I made two mistakes, one in the first act, another in the third...
...companion and servant is Jim Darnley, engaging, unscrupulous, intelligent Englishman who has left the British Navy as a result of some queer scandal. Attracted by Jim's robust enjoyment of nature, weary of his own brooding conscience, Oliver still cannot free his mind of questions of right and wrong, is offended when Jim tells him candidly of his father's weakness. Oliver's first shock comes when he learns that his father is a narcotic addict. Then he discovers that during his college days, at a fraternity initiation, his father had accidentally killed a man. To complete...
Hoffman is playing a game that may be political suicide. if he is right anything will be his for the asking; even unto the vice-Presidency on the Republican ticket. If he is wrong he will learn how costly a mistake made in public office may be. However, for his honesty and straightforwardness at such a time he should receive the highest praise. Behind Hoffman should go the support of the people in America who felt that Condon field in fear because he knew more than he dared tell. Hoffman's duty is unmistakable. In the face of such universal...
...home out of every hard month. It never occurred to his simple mind, nearly as calloused as his hands, that Anne might not be contented as he was. His boozy father-in-law hinted, neighborhood gossip spoke plainer, Anne herself as good as told him that something was wrong. The most Chris could bring himself to believe was that it was nothing much. He did the proper thing, according to his lights, in beating Anne nearly dead, then scotching the gossip and his doubts by forgiving her and himself in hearty stoker fashion. Feeling still somehow inadequate, he promised...