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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meaning though rhetorically sprawling. Sentence (2) restates in altered words the argument of the first sentence, employing the awkward, "a deathicss name"; but afterwards expands, paralleling with the figure of the millionaire and the transplanted elm. After scrutinizing cogitation the transplanted elm appears blatantly impossible, either in its own context or in relation to the young novelist and his contemporary applause. Sentence (3) commences firmly to distinguish between "compact" and "fulfilled," but instead of focusing his point the frivolous poet appends an incomprehensible commentating clause. Sentence (4) is a compression of the defects of the "Letters" at large. Sordid subjects...
...CRIMSON regrets that a proofreader's error should so tactlessly have distorted the context of yesterday's hockey story. It is "unfortunate" and not "fortunate...
With a layman's proverbial disregard for Biblical scholarship, I venture to place these words before you this afternoon torn from their context and ask you to read them with twentieth century eyes. If you will follow me in this I suggest you will have in hand an epitome of what you have been striving to attain during the last four years--an education...
That statement was made 30 years ago when Mr. Hughes was serving his first term as Governor of New York and the sense of it in its context was: Since the interpretation of the Constitution falls upon the courts, to get an honest interpretation the Judiciary must be kept independent of political influence. He said: "I reckon him one of the worst enemies of the community who will talk lightly of the dignity of the bench. We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the Judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty...
...soften the fact that Mr. Cohan's delivery is a nasal, almost snarling monotone which is the epitome of Broadway and has no more modulation than a piccolo rendition of Yankee Doodle, or that his famed chuckle derives much of its effect from its irrelevance to the context. Ed Fulton likes lilacs and Tennyson's poetry, wants his family to be happy. His daughter is unhappy because she is treated like a child, and because her sweetheart's father is an old enemy of Ed Fulton's. When the young pair go off for a clandestine...