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...that furnace-hot, crystal-clear July 3 of 1898, her turrets swung around, her guns (four 13-inchers, eight 8-inchers) spat steel and death at the Spaniards, her sweating gun crews cheered. Six Spanish ships were destroyed, the Spanish flagship Maria Teresa was chased onto the beach. U.S. Commodore W. S. Schley wigwagged: "Well done, brave Oregon." And because the Oregon was almost late to battle, she clinched another argument, which ended U.S. isolationism forever: a Panama canal was vital to U.S. defense...
Branding showers as "unclean, unsanitary, and unhealthful," Rost claims that he had tried the swimming pool, and even a dip in the cool crystal-clear waters of the Charles as a substitute for an old-fashioned bath, but was satisfied with neither. "Just bring on those Mount Holyoke girls," Rost boasted...
...personality as Kay Motford, the girl he eventually marries, is conventional. And Harry Pulham himself, who is unable to break away from the traditions in which he was brought up, is genuine and convincing at all times. It cannot be denied that "H. M. Pulham, Esquire" is a crystal-clear delineation of the life of a Harvard man. Harry's story certainly is not to be read as a sure-fire formula for success in life, but just as certainly it is to be read for sheer enjoyment...
...atmosphere of the shop, and in the trophies and pictures which hide its walls. The pictures especially are intriguing. They vary all the way from a fading photograph of Harry Cowles, forty-five years ago, when he was a ball-boy at the Newport Casino, to a crystal-clear shot of Champion Beckman Pool '32, in his underwear...
Composer Carpenter's new symphony was smooth and well-dressed as Composer Carpenter himself. Orchestra Hall rang with polite applause; politely Composer Carpenter took three curtain calls. Critics, praising its tuneful themes, its crystal-clear orchestration, were polite too, found it one of the most gentlemanly of symphonies...