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Acadians. The story of Melville illustrates the tenacity with which the people in the area now being flooded cling to their homes. Most of them are Acadians?of old French and Spanish stock, few speaking English. They are (in the words of Herbert C. Hoover) "as much like French peasants as one dot is like another." Many of them wear French peasant costumes; have their shoes peg-nailed by a community shoemaker, his last held between his knees; eat hoe-cakes of home-ground corn meal, baked over live coals on three-legged iron spiders. Unable to realize that...
...last week reported: "There is no other part of the great metropolis which displays so much of poverty's backwash-tired women in frayed dresses of years ago, old men who capture a smoke from discarded stubs of cigars." The home will be "a place for those who cling miserably to vacant seats on park benches, who sit all day in branch libraries reading endless newspapers, and who, sometimes, when fortune favors them, get a chance to carry huge advertisements for cheap trousers or tumbledown restaurants on their backs...
...that dark lady of love cling together on a parapet above foam-spread rocks. The poet makes a marvel of their love, putting it beyond time and space, above life...
...single experiment of renovating a play of Shakespeare was made by a professional company in London and New York. In that case, only the physical surroundings of "Hamlet" were changed; the Dramatic Club however, will not cling to even the old lines, wherever it is found that new will add to the up-to-date character of the production...
...sung in the approved Italian manner, lyrically, lovingly. They opened their eyes to see him lead on a little Italian child, ten-year-old Rina, his daughter. She played an accompaniment for him correctly, laboriously. They heard him sing again without distraction, heard him take perilous notes bravely, truly, cling to them fondly, heard pianissimos incredibly tender, applauded, many of them, shouted bravos, sat; others, mum, felt their praise unneeded to swell the confidence of the World's Greatest Tenor...