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...your March 19 issue on p. 14 you speak of Circuit Judge Allen as having "a cordial handshake and myopic eyes." From the appearance of her eyes in the accompanying photograph, I would suggest that the Judge is hyperopic, not myopic; in other words "farsighted" not "near-sighted...
...Musical Courier. Two years later she returned to Cleveland as the Plain Dealer's music editor. New York University gave her an LL. B. An able feminist, a Dry, an opponent of war, she soon became a heroine to women. A quiet, thin-lipped woman with a cordial hand shake and myopic eyes, she rises at 5:30 a. m., exercises to a phonograph before going to work. Weekends she hikes. Her decisions from the Supreme Court bench have been learned, middle-of-the-roadish. Had President Roosevelt withheld his appointment one fortnight, he would have given Judge Allen...
...business being thus closed, the Members adjourned to the City Tavern, dined together and took a cordial leave of each other; after which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with, and received the papers from the Secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous w[or]k which had been executed, after not less than five, lor; large part of the time Six, and sometimes 7 hours sitting every day, [except] Sundays and the ten days adjournment . . . for more than four months...
After a brief, cordial chat, Chancellor Adolf made Carpenter Ignatz superintendent of the building in Munich where the chief Nazi newspaper is published. While Ignatz Jr. and Mrs. Westenkirchner burst into sobs of joy, Ignatz shook the Chancellor's hand at parting, then radiantly exclaimed to Dr. Hanfstaengl...
...most satisfactory short story in the anthology because the author has the faculty of building up a unique situation with a masterly touch of irony. George Pendleton is an idealistic young writer who emulates the style of the great master of literature, Alfred Pillsbury. He has received a most cordial invitation to visit Mr. Phillsbury, and as he approaches the villa of the master, he dreams of the pleasant conversations he will have with the master...