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...leader in the Senate, hardworking, humorless Joseph Taylor Robinson from Arkansas. Long sessions of Congress always make trouble for an Administration, and the President wants Congress adjourned somewhere between May 1 and May 15. Together President and Senator surveyed the calendar of Congress as if it were a chessboard, saw it littered with pieces of legislation, some to be moved to victory, others to be left dead when the board is arbitrarily swept clean by adjournment. Like two chessmasters they ticked off the bills that the Administration feels must be passed by some means or other before the game ends...
...Jeremiah (i.e. denunciatory pessimist) is Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, M.A., since 1930 Head of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at Birkbeck College in the University of London. Though he plays such cheerful games as tennis and hockey, Jeremiah Joad also sits long over the chessboard, writes ironical, sarcastic books. A typical Joadism: "Advertisements are ugly, partly because commercial men rarely have the sense to employ artists to design them, partly because artists, on the rare occasions when they are employed, have not the sense to design what the commercial men want." (The Babbitt Warren, p. 143; Harper...
...stifle their individuality. Like Auer his dominant traits are sweetness and a gentle, kindly humor. Like Josef Hofmann, Albert Spalding, Mischa Elman, Alfred Hertz, Pablo Casals, Maria Jeritza and many another famed musician, he is a brilliant chess-player. In San Francisco he used to carry a little chessboard in his pocket. It was no unusual sight to see him take it out on a trolley car, set up a game...
...March 4) at almost every conceivable point. In the first place, the Wabash itself was the most vital unit in the proposed greater and longer B. & O. From a B. & O. standpoint, the Wabash ambition for its own system is much as if one of the pawns on a chessboard should crown, itself king and start a game of its own. Much of the Wabash petition to the Interstate Commerce Commission was devoted to protest against absorption by the B. & O. to establishing the Wabash as a potent independent. The Western Maryland was also included in the B. & O. scheme...
...inaudible and exciting music, the bright statues began a fantastically deliberate ballet through the squares of the chessboard. The pawns stepped forward with a delicate terror; the rooks swept furiously, in straight lines, across the spaces, and the bishops slanted with slow dexterity between the stiff irregular maneuvers of the knights. Soon there were fewer dancers in the ballet; two sinister queens pranced among them with precise cruelty. The music to which they moved grew faint and there were long periods in which the figurines stood still and the two men stared at the board with a contemplative fury. Finally...