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THE PRESIDENCY OF AMERICA
CAN ROOSEVELT RELY ON SECOND TERM? REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES AND THEIR PROGRAMMES
(By Denys Smith)
R ROOSEVELT'S re-elec-1 too. are a little troubled over
News of the tragedy was made he has cancelled all matinees for "Follow the Sun," which reopened
ME are a alte troubled hour known last month. No one Saw
last the accident, which occurred when in its twice-nightly form the couple had just started from month at the Adelphi. He said President of the United States he will conduct himself during If he grows that the artists generally prefer cannot be predicted rith assur-the campaign. their home at Nikolassee for a
twice-nightly bills to two weekly ance. Many competent ob-angry, "gets rattled," and puts Frau 100
predict his matinees. although they would be servers Hong Kong. Tuesday, May 19, 1936 holiday in Silesia.
defeat, no curb upon his tongue, he Wietersheim was driving.
The car was a mile from the giving the full show as in the Though from Washingten the may play into the hands of the No President once-nightly arrangement.
President's chances still appear Republicans. village of Dahleweitz between
The Continental custom for un-bright, there is an undercurrent can hope to be elected if he Berlin and Kottbas, when it a derstudies to play at matinees has of anxiety behind even the antagonises the big middle-
the road and тап
stoutest Democratic boast. class core of the "American The immense richness of the parently left
But if the Presi- Matinees are one of Miss Elisa- President Roosevelt's record population.. English language is perhaps into a tree. Some soldiers who ever been adopted in England.
vicinity ran to the nowhere better displayed than were in the
Some spot, and found Frau von Wieter-beth Bergner's worst trials. Other can be presented in satisfactory dent follows sober Conservative in its wealth of idiom. really magnificent phrases have sheim dead and the colonel seri- actors and actresses share her colours. He solved the banking campaign tactics it will be more
crisis; he raised farm prices difficult to rouse enthusiasm. passed into the common cur-jously injured. He died in a few dislike, if in less measure.
Their major objection is that and more generally restored the Republican Choice rency of the language: some, minutes, on the way to hospital.
matizee audiences are less recountry's confidence in its Even more important than indeed,
looked
Dog Responsible? upon
future. But his record can just President. Roosevelt's method car was ceptive than evening ones. nowadays
journalistic The back seat of the
There is also the difficulty of as easily be presented in dark of campaigning is the question The public debt has of who will carry the Repub- cliches, which is a pity, because occupied by a sporting dog, and it!
At present Gover- many of them reveal a pithi-is believed that Frau von Wieter-disposing effectively of the period colours. ness of expression and a sound sheim turned round to quieten the between 5.45 p.m.. when they have been doubled and taxes in-lican flag knowledge of the value of words animal, thus losing control of the nished taking off their make-up.creased without any real break nor Landen, of Kansas, is the and 7.30, when they have to start in the unemployment situation; most likely choice, with Con- which deserve a better fate. car.
while in spending public money gressman James Wadsworth as there have been waste and in running mate to satisfy the Almost all the "Hackneyed The shaft of the steering wheel putting it on again.
matters beyond his control. in- East. Landon comes from the Phrases" which Fowler so bit-pierced her body, and her hus crushed by the
efficiency.
right section of the country, terly castigates were effective band's skull was
The American position com-the Middle West. He has no when first coined: whatever impact with the door.
OUT SHE WENT the language Lt-Col their status in
von Wietersheim
pares unfavourably with that connection with Wall Street and The ear had a truculent woman "Suffer a sea change"Miss Eve were married" in 1910.
ber fondness of Great Britain and Canada. Big Business. He continues to years been parishioner noted for
The ranks of Britain's un-build up a reputation as a sound "Consummation devoutly to be They had for some
For gin. One day she went
American who wished," **Tender mercies: living in retirement.
church hiccuping with a painful dis employed have been reduced in common-sense
economy. caution, examine them all and you will
tinctress The parson bore it for the past three years by about believes in
sound finance. His a few moments; then, looking at the 24 per cent. compared with the land find something approaching a Igenius of invention in
verger, he exclaimed, "Jones, kinds United States, reduction of 19 speeches read well, but his radio remove that person from the buil
per cent.; while Canada's reduc-voice is not very good at pre- case. When Swinburne first
ding." used the expression "enciente
ober. tion has been 42 per cent Jones rose reluctantly to
breath.
His chief Against New Deal
rival, Senator buds many were appalled by
The congregation held its his lack of delicacy. but many)
expecting a scene, but to their relie
Recent straw votes and polls Borah, of Idaho, is handicapped the woman rose and left without have shown that the coming by his age, and that is a dis- others applauded the skill with
purpur After the service the vicar which he had used a word with
congratulated the man on the tactful contest will be close. The most ability which cannot be re- la particular meaning to embel-
recent of these polls was one moved. But though 72 years way he had removed the eulprit. ish a literary conceit.
"How did you manage it?" he ask-taken by the "Literary Digest" old, the Senator is still hale
Watching him Recently we have had a learned judge enquiring the Farian Revolution in 1849,
FTER the unsuccessful Hun-ed
"Well, sir," said the verger, among the ranks of the clergy and hearty.
Over 21,000 -votes were cast, from the Senate Gallery dur- just went origin of the expression
and have and seven out of every tening the past month, it almost. peter out." not as a matter of the leaders of the revolt were cap-Come on, ma; come out
voted against the New Deal. seems as though his step is the habitual legal ignorance tured and executed. Among them one wi' me'”
This vote was all the more re-growing continually firmer and An which judges generally show-was the entirely innocent Premier
markable because it had been his hair a little less grey.
Senator "Who is Charlie Chaplin?" and of Hungary, Louis Batthyany, who
Austria. The "Yes, sir, it was just about the assumed that the humanitarian unusual feature of a friend of
was the "What is, the Cup Final?" are was
Nothing to do but policies of the New Deal would Borah's candidacy good examples but in a Emperor disregarded a pleas to ideal vacation.
loll around all das in comfortable be the very kind which would number of politicians anxious genuine search for the origins save the innocent Premier.
chairs. No mosquitoes, no insects of picturesque idiomatic
sident. Hearing of the execution of her any and. Pleasant, smiling people appeal most readily to the to run with him as Vice-Pre-
all sides. No big bills running up, clergy as a body. Oxford son, the old Countess Batthyany usage. The Concise
Senator Borah believes not in The outcome of the elections Dictionary has nothing to say cursed the Emperor to the effect no relatives, no sunburn.
"Just peace and quiet all day long will depend upon the Republican the three "P's," but in the three about
merely that he might be smitten as re- A thorough rest for the mind and selection of candidate and pro-Ts": Inflation, Isolation and the matter. qualifying the word as "slang" garded those he loved best, in his
body-the kind of vacation you've gramme, and upon how the Senator Borah, plus support of and attaching to it a question- children and his kin.
always dreamed about
President conducts his own the Constitution and the "little "Yes, sir, it was ideal. We
The The Curse proved a formidable mark in reference to its origin.
most staid man." "X.YZ." in a letter to a con- one. Rudolf committed suicide,tainly enjoyed that vacation the boss campaign.
Isupporters of the President, (Continued On Page 11} temporary, suggests what Elizabeth was assassinated, Maxi- took." seems the most reasonable ex-milian was executed, Albrecht died ------ planation: derivation from the of a fall from a horse, the Duchess Greek "petra." and he quotes ad'Alencon was burned to death in mining man's reference to what a Paris hazaar fire, Carlotta was. actually takes place when a vein insane for nearly 60 years. Bed- gradually "peters out." in sup-wig was burned to death. Ladislas port of his contention: "died in a gun accident, Johann was gradual reduction in width of lost at sea, and Franz Ferdinand the mineralised vein' or 'lode"
assassinated ia Sarajevo. until it is indistinguishable causing the World War. "I am from the country rock'
spared nothing."
of
а
"to
in
RYLE
OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
The Curse Of The Hapsburgs
said the Ex-
which it is enclosed." The peror, who died during the War expression is a good example of the realisation that his Empire those idiomatic usages in the was crumbling. English language which add so much to its richness and colour.
And there are literally hun-merely means "majority" in the Russian). Consider dreds of others.
"Weighing original
anchor" and "plane (not the strange, eventful history of "plain") sailing" were recently some words: "cynosure," from meaning discussed in learned fashion by two Greek words correspondents to the Observer. literally "dog's tail;" applied to
have For our part we
con-ja particular constellation in the interested tinually been
in northern sky, frequently used and finally "stumbling block" and "lash-in navigation: ings of" (te indicate abundance) applied to anything subjected both everyday expressions to continuous visual examina- whose origins ате obscure. tion. Then there is the word The meaning of "stumbling "havoc:" from the Old French, once a signal for block" is perfectly straight-"havot:" forward; but why "block," marauding armies to proceed to which seems to suggest some the forcible seizure of spoil; artificially created obstacle even in this day used in a rather than some natural snag? wrack-gathering ceremony held in- the Channel And when and how did "lash-annually
Finally there is lings of" come to indicate, in Islands.
slang, plenty? What is the "robot," which surely has one basis for the expression of the strangest histories of When was it first used, and any modern English words. în since when has its slang mean-that it was added to the lan- ing come to be perfectly under-guage by the Czech dramatist the play stood? There seems to us to Karel Capek in
Univer- be immense scope here for dili"R.U.R."Bossum's gent research.
sal Robots" "Robots" being judge men. No The original meanings of the mechanical words themselves, when it has yet asked in Court what a comes to the examination of robot is; but the circumstance idiomatic origins, are seldom can well be visualised without helpful, for the simple reason any painful stretching of the that 90 many words have imagination. The well of Eng- THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION changed their meaning in the lish undefiled is an hallucina-
Cf. tion; there is rather
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