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...done in a large way, the finishing touch was put upon the Smith campaign to lead the party. It was the first primary where the Brown Derby competed directly with its only serious antagonists, Candidates Reed and Walsh. It was the home state of the Brown Derby's bitterest enemy, William Gibbs McAdoo, and Mr. McAdoo had instituted the Walsh campaign just for old time's sake, in memory of two McAdoo nominations blocked by Candidate Smith in 1920 and 1924. Candidate Reed perhaps served as a slight buffer between the two, but the returns were: Smith...
...certain vindictiveness that is not to be found in most authors. That the attempt to blacken the name of Rome is more or less intentional is shown clearly by the preface, and throughout the work there is a use of invective that would have shamed even Cicero in his bitterest mood...
...quotations that furnish its title: from Noah Webster, " '. . .the yellow gentian which has a very bitter taste' " and from The New Botany, "'... flowers, pushing through from some inner plane of being, and with such energy that they are visible to man. Especially the blue gentian.' " Even in the bitterest of Author Gale's stories there is a vein of iron sentimentality; even in her bravest, there is a grimly sentimental irony. Yet sentimentality is only the approximate, not the exact word to describe a humanity that prevents each of Author Gale's terse episodes from being merely a brilliant chart...
...majority of universities, registration is symbolical for standing endlessly in line, for answering countless questions and for filing innumerable bonds. The registration limp is as vital a disease as the writer's cramp and much more prevalent. And the hours which pass while waiting in line are among the bitterest in the human rosary. At Harvard it means little more than a walk to one of various halls and ten minutes spent there while registering. To be sure there are appended duties such as journies to one's tutor and to the Bank, but the main agony is passed when...
...bitterest test comes to her when Gerry returns, years after her second marriage. Then she says: "You will ask-all men do-and whatever you ask I'll do for you." Yet he guesses that away from the ships, Mary Hansyke's eager and concentrated mind could not for long be satisfied. They plan to go away together, but quietly, alone, he goes first. "Forever young, forever brave, forever proud, Mary Hansyke walked across the old shipyard, while the John Garton moved down the harbor, her keel parting a shoreless sea, her prow lifted...