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Forty Republicans and 36 Democrats?76 in all???voted for the Court, although the maximum number which might have been necessary...
...What is there to mark him from the obscurity out of which he came? To date, only that he?one of the greatest constitutional lawyers in the Senate, one of the most conscientious, careful-minded men?is the greatest discoverer of political mud in this generation. This will be all???unless Mr. Fall or Mr. Sinclair or Mr. Doheny goes to jail. If one of them serves a jail sentence, then that finely molded head of Senator Walsh becomes much more?it becomes heroic, the chiseled likeness of a patriot, vigilant, unforgetting, bold...
...reddest Indian, his most blushful sunset, his glaringest desert appear before the eye, often with a marked degree of credibility. The characters thus incolorated are incarnated in Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Kathlyn Williams, Billie Dove. These, together with Death Valley, the Arizona cacti, Red Rock Canyon?flawless in beauty all???glorify themselves forever...
...under an additional disadvantage, for we have lost a large number of our best parliamentarians and fighting men. Our former leader, Mondell, will not be with us, nor will Fess, nor Campbell, nor Walsh, nor Stafford, nor Greene, nor Kelley, nor Fordney, nor Reavis, nor?the peer of them all???the late James R. Mann. These were the men who bore the brunt of every battle, and their places will be difficult indeed to fill...
...Significance. Life seen with exquisite clarity, subtlety, thoughtfulness, humor, sometimes with scorn or sorrow, but never with spite or despair. Unerring felicity of word and line?work so beautifully, unobtrusively apt and accomplished that beside it most contemporary prose seems careless and shoddy. And yet the technique is not all???is merely an instrument?is never brittle?the insight pierces deep and is very clear. A world built up of tiny, crystalline fragments?but a world that will remain when many great fictional constellations now spinning in the literary void have expired like wet fireworks...