The Archive · 1938

Senator Soaper Says

Tr society for insisting that popular songs mean something is launched on a new research, It will try to identify (1) a ticket and (2) a tasker, A captious critic complains of modern jargon in historical films. He doubts that Marie Antoinette asked of an informant, "What d'yuh hear from the mob?"

They credit Moscow with finding the diplomatic language that Tokyo understands. If one says it with guns, no nuance is lost in the translation, A new brochure says it is still true that clothes make the man. Are we to understand that that is a mess over there, in the mess jacket?

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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