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...stepladders as with lexicons. For more than 18 years the work has been under way. The subjects range from earliest Slavic history to allegorical, exuberant prophecy. Sages, religious leaders, rulers appear in glorious pageantry. The most magnificent picture of the series, a canvas as large as the façade of a sizeable barn, depicts the liberation of Russian serfs by Tsar Alexander II in 1861. In a grey, snowy twilight a crowd of the poor are gathered in Moscow's Red Square. Looming through the soft fall of flakes is the ornate Cathedral of St. Basil, multicolored cupolas...
This was not the first time that Mr. Dreiser had been accused of plagiarism. George Ade shamed him in 1926; Columnist Franklin P. Adams of the New York World found remarkably similar passages in Mr. Dreiser's works and in Sherwood Anderson's earlier Winesburg, Ohio...
...honest effort by Writer Ruhl to report on Nominee Smith as he saw him. Excerpts: "There is something intensely real about 'Al' Smith . . . something alive, dynamic, go-ahead-reality in a spiritual sense. . . . "The late President Harding, let us say, presented a façade which was suave and winning. . . . But once touched or pierced it too often turned out to be but a façade and little more. . " 'Al' Smith's façade, the grin, cocked derby and half-chewed cigar . . . has little to do with the sort of 'reality...
When U. S. contributors offered to rebuild the Library, Belgium's beloved Hero Primate, the late Desire Cardinal Mercier, authorized the following inscription for the faÇade...
Author George Ade of Indiana...