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...Revamper Lewisohn's Shylock. For Lewisohn has romanticized Shylock's melodramatic figure, gentled him down into an unconvincing shadow of his former self. You learn that Antonio's pound of flesh was safe all the time. Shylock's "knife would not have gone very deep into the bosom of his adversary.'' He would only have nicked him, got him good & scared, then shown the Christian dog he knew as much as Portia about the quality of mercy...
...railed gently against Owen D. Young as the candidate of what is called the Power Trust and plunked mildly for New York's Governor Roosevelt as a "progressive" Democrat who would probably "appeal most" to himself & friends. Republican regulars said nothing. Executive Director Lucas rested quietly in the bosom of his family at Louisville. At the White House not even a political mouse stirred. The Significance. Third-party talk is a sobering thing, especially when a real split in a party has become visible...
Daughter of a rich California family, Caroline was early made a globetrotter by her restless mother. In China she met Maggie, also from the U. S., and became her bosom friend. When Maggie married dashing Buck Dawson, British naval officer, Caroline followed her friend to England. While she watched the Dawsons' stormy married life Caroline took old Aristocrat Hugo as her fatherly lover. When she accidentally had a baby and Hugo's old wife died he wanted to do the right thing by her. To prevent him she married worthless Jock, gentleman rider and latent cad. He left...
...circlet of sapphires, rubies and diamonds upon the Emperor's woolly head, he continued, "Gird the sword upon thy loins, yet rule in Peace! May the Lord God, supreme ruler of men, bless and glorify thy reign, and may He ever keep thee and thy consort in His bosom...
...very proud of you!" Into talking-cinema microphones Hero Franklin spoke English: "Give me the good old American girl," and Spanish: "Commend me to the charming senoritas of Spain." Of the Spanish King he said: "He strikes me as just a big kid." Then he retired into the bosom of his family, which consists of father, mother, four sisters, three brothers, inhabitants of a modest Brooklyn house...