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Beside that ardently swelling literary bosom, the lean, taut, fidgety figure of the author of Main Street, Babbitt and Arrowsmith might seem a little out of place and even a little out of date. For a decade Lewis had favored U.S. readers with a book almost every biennium, but his last important work had been done in the beginning of the '30s. If Cass Timberlane now acquired new importance, that was chiefly due to the fact that the hundreds of thousands of men & women who would read his new novel had, while he was writing it, made...
...York Times Topicker Simeon Strunsky, who usually does, saw the brighter side of things in the long lines waiting to buy papers at the plants. Wrote he: "It is calculated to make a newspaper man's bosom swell with pride, like Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., riding at anchor in Pinafore. . . ." Other newsmen felt as if they were talking into a dead mike...
...maimed Union soldier changed his plans. He became a passionate supporter of homes and pensions for disabled veterans. He tore the field of Gettysburg from the hands of souvenir hunters, made it a national shrine. He arranged the famed Gettysburg reunions of Blue and Grey. General Longstreet became his bosom friend. "[Your stand at Gettysburg]," wrote Longstreet, "was the sorest and saddest reflection of my life for many years; but today I can say . . . that it was . . . the best that could have come...
...Synod (either taken by surprise or not paying strict attention) approved the report without a dissenting vote. Next day, finding itself clutched to the editorial bosom of the left-wing press, the Synod rubbed its eyes and sat up. Much of Canada's press spluttered with indignant denunciations. Last week a red-faced Synod spokesman explained emphatically that Canadian Presbyterians are not red-minded. The controversial passage had not appeared in the official copy, said he, but had been interpolated during the reading by an overenthusiastic chairman...
Soon, France's Baltic garrisons were aquake with jitters, and the neutrals were agape with admiration. Influential Russian Countess Canerine, whose "dark and liquid eyes" burned with "consuming fire," decided that Hornblower's manly chest was the place for her "bosom white as snow." Prussian Strategist von Clausewitz deserted from Napoleon's Prussian army, and learned, from Hornblower, what strategy really meant. Sweden joined the Allies. Tsar Alexander was so encouraged that he sent Napoleon a rude letter - which, of course, resulted in the march on Moscow...