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...worst in January 1934, he has kept Republican orators from staggering the country with those disclosures in November when a new Congress will be elected. Moreover by that time he expects to have balanced the budget, to have begun reducing the national debt. Even if his plans go astray, if he fails to balance the budget in fiscal 1936, he will have the opportunity to present a balanced budget for fiscal 1937 which will be just begun when he campaigns for reelection. The worse present budgets may appear the better will be all future comparisons...
...readers who like to warm their hands over something more human. In Gentlemen, I Address You Privately she writes, with what seems an almost deliberate avoidance of charm, about people who cannot be said to exist, who would hardly matter if they did. Authoress Boyle, nearly as far astray from normality as Faulkner, has clothed her fairies in human guise, but they remain fairies...
Katha never got to London, and there was a five-year nightmare before Tony could get to Vienna. Letters between them had gone astray. The lovers were lost. So Tony came back and married Margaret because she desperately wanted to and he was suffering from "delayed shock." Not for 13 years did Tony see Katha. By 1927 he had given up his business, had begun wandering round the Continent. At Aeaea they met. Katha was thinner. She had been scrubbing floors in a Vienna department store. Poverty had even pawned her body a few times. She could no longer have...
...Feckless Dinner-Party," a gro- tesque parable of how a sophisticated group of diners were led astray by the butler ("Toomes") into the dark, silent cellars, the broken conversational lines may remind the reader of de la Mare's famed relation, Robert Browning, but the theme and its unraveling are very delaMare. "Thus Her Tale" tells of a suicide's ghost that still haunts her undiscovered bones, hidden in a thicket. In "The Owl," a baker's wife and daughter are shamed and frightened out of their wits and into their true selves by the silent gaze...
...lustful pastor in the late Jeanne Eagels' most successful play Rain was also a "Reverend Davidson." †Literally "conduct unbecoming a sheep herder," overseer or bishop. For Ye were as sheep going astray; but arc now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.-Peter...