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...tenebrous tones Churchill surveyed the Spartan boundaries of Labor's promised land. "All enterprise, all initiative is baffled and fettered. The queues are longer, the faces are longer, the shelves are barer, the shops are emptier. . . . Whole spheres of beneficial activity are frozen rigid and numb because this Government had to prove their Socialist orthodoxy...
...Chicago 35 discharged G.I.s picked over the slim stocks in a men's wear shop last week, found no suits or overcoats to fit. In stores all across the land it was the same: clothes racks were barer than at any time since war began...
...when Abbott let his pint-sized brother-in-law, a Florida lawyer, take over (1926), the Defender started down the skids. Livelier competitors (the Baltimore Afro-American and Pittsburgh Courier) grabbed a lot of Defender circulation with pictures of barer brownskin and high yaller gals, more chest-thumping against race discrimination. The Defender staff had to be harshly shaken up. The brother-in-law, bounced at last, sued the now-ailing Abbott for $85,000. Mrs. Abbott No. 1 won an expensive divorce suit. Abbott put his favorite nephew in charge of the paper. The Defender went from...
...eleven years he and his wife lived in Derry, N. H. in almost complete isolation. Four children were born and he wrote constantly, but except for a few poems printed in the (now defunct) Independent, a religious weekly, none of his poetry was published. He scraped a barer and barer living from his farm. But meanwhile he was writing his intensest poetry. This intensity was the natural consequence of living face to face, side by side with a living Muse...
Artists and Models is a saturnalia that grows, each year, bigger, better, barer. This one is called the Paris Edition because the name Paris is, with Broadwayites, a synonym for limbs and confidential badinage. The badinage in this show, however, achieves wit; the lace is never where it is expected; and the limbs, particularly those of the Gertrude Hoffman girls, late of the Moulin Rouge, are exquisite, adept. Authors Harold Atteridge and Harry Wabstaff Gribble do not depend on the upholstery to make their lines agreeable; the art directing and music decidedly the most able that those penetrating students...