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...lineage of Uncle Sam, benign personification of the nation, was again raised last week. Was this lean Yankee character in beaver hat and striped trousers who reflects the emotions of 123,000,000 people, the bastard offspring of some japester's lively imagination or was he the scion of flesh-and-blood...
Speaker Nicholas Longworth was addressing his House of Representatives a few minutes before its March 4 adjournment. He was rounding out his third term in the highest legislative office in the land. Smiling, benign, always the "good fellow" he was looking forward to December when the 72nd Congress would meet with neither party in clear-cut control. Well aware was he that Death, in the interval, might decide the Speakership...
Getting Married. This Theatre Guild revival of George Bernard Shaw's matrimonial polemic is well-staged, well-directed, well-acted. It presents a number of classic theatrical characters?the braggart soldier, the canny servant, the benign prelate, the worldly-wise woman. Worthiest of these folk, of course, are permitted to toss sound Shavian doctrine between themselves like a medicine ball. Mr. Shaw's sensible precept is that marriage is not a completely blessed state, but that there is no better solution for the social problems of men and women to date. His recommendations: more flexible divorce laws, more respect...
...Century of Progress Exposition for 1933,earnest esthetes gathered in Manhattan auditoriums three nights in succession last week to thumb their long intelligent noses at the Commission,-to honor the man they consider the greatest living architect. Architect Wright, who has never considered bashfulness a blessing, presided like a benign deity over all three meetings: at the University Club, at Town Hall, at the New School for Social Research...
...mesa rock at Acoma, whence the women must descend for water). In all, there are about 75,000 Indians in this district. Every now & then their chiefs hitch up covered wagons or crank up battered motor trucks and travel through the varicolored badlands to councils called by tall, tanned, benign Herbert James Hagerman, 59, onetime (1906-1907) Governor of New Mexico Territory, now special Interior Department Commissioner to handle the business of 21 tribes. Constantly his little official car is speeding over the roads to local powwows or religious dances, where the guttural excitement of the drums will greet...