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...critics, who have scoffed at the first nine Lanny books for their cardboard characterizations and their comic-strip simplifications of history, will hardly think better of No. 10. Such objections will continue to leave Upton Sinclair unmoved, since he has magnificently succeeded in what, after all, he set out to do: to write Upton Sinclair's version of history and get millions of people to read it. (Lanny, incidentally, his faith in the future undimmed, decides to devote himself henceforth to humanitarian journalism...
...petitioners had to wait in suspense until the very week before the races. Those who were accepted were mailed a crown-embossed badge of cardboard admitting them to the coveted square of turf upon payment of ?10 for gentlemen, ?7 for ladies. Holders of mere owners' cards (like Rita and Aly Khan and Beautician Elizabeth Arden Graham) sat in boxes overlooking the Royal Enclosure-but that was a long way from being inside it. These underprivileged souls had some crumbs of comfort. Ladies in the Royal Enclosure may not smoke cigarettes and are forbidden to lean across the fence...
...like going back into another century when John and Mary explored the faded old white house where the handset, rundown Journal had been published for decades. Blocking their way was a weird jumble of cardboard boxes, auto parts, dried nuts, empty jars, tin cans and old metal. In a stack of unopened letters...
...weekly heap of dirty clothes is a problem that varying Harvard men solve in varying ways. Some carefully pack their laundry in neat cardboard cases, lug them down to the Post Office, and then spend weeks in squalor and grime waiting for the return mail. Other pile their clothes in the washbasin and alternately serub and sneeze until a dazzling brightness is attained. But most undergraduates shoulder or dispatch their wash to Cambridge laundries which charge up to $18 to fray cuffs off of shirtsleeves...
...stubby (5 ft. 8 in., 175 Ibs.) Louis Armstrong speaks of his role on Shrove Tuesday (March 1), his expressive eyes shine with excitement and amusement. Dressed in long, black-dyed underwear and grass skirt and wearing a green velvet cape and gilt cardboard crown, the King sets out on a riotous 20-mile, all-day parade. He winds through the streets of the Negro district, stopping at the shops of parade sponsors, holds court, sees that his loyal Zulu subjects are refreshed with beer and potato salad...