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...admitted in press conference, was an injunction controlling only TVA's power activities, did not interrupt work on its dams. Said Raymond Moley: "I should welcome the opportunity to speak to the man of whom we heard Thursday evening, to the man who, in the sweat of his brow, piles sand bags on the levee at Cairo. And if I spoke to him I would say that there is no evidence whatsoever that the Supreme Court has ever placed obstacles in the way of flood control. I would tell him, too, that there is no evidence whatsoever that...
...been marking time and dreaming of a progress it has failed to make. Any archeologist will tell you as much; modern man has no better skull, no better brain. Just a cave man, more or less trained." Shaken, but not to his roots, George goes off with temporarily furrowed brow to play croquet with his aunt...
...Oursler has written a successful melodrama (The Spider), a number of novels, a series of detective stories, and a book on travel and religion called A Skeptic in the Holy Land. Mr. Oursler is a capable prestidigitator and, say some, an expert ventriloquist. Tweed-coated, narrow-chinned, high of brow, Mr. Oursler has a vaguely ministerial appearance. This facile and versatile literary man does his writing and conducts his employer's magazines on a cliff's edge at West Falmouth, Mass. In stormy weather, the spume of Buzzards Bay flies almost to the wide windows...
...approaching or receding, thus giving the effect of the legitimate stage. "Queen Elizabeth" was the last and most highly developed of this type and since it was smoother and clearer the acting technique could be watched. Without voice or closeups the players had to resort to violent pantomime, grimacing, brow puckering, and the frightened clutch at throat or bosom...
...that his opponents have honest motives. Disillusioned Mr. Norris never gives up a fight no matter how often it may be lost. He sticks when other Progressives in the Senate waver. All his successes are 'due to the fact that through years of weary waiting, his cocked eye-brow has never grown weary while he watchfully waited for an opportunity to come...