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...embarrassing, yet she created Shirley Challoner and the "green forest." The whole point of the book is to delight people who can understand that "Debussy is the wettest music ?passion done in silver point," and similar subtle apperceptions. Yet between subtlety and forced fancy even "understanding" readers will detect many a disheartening difference. The girl's face "banged shut." About babies: "There might be sky-blue ones, or indigo ones, or even some navy-blue ones." Lovers are close for a moment, and the episode calls to mind not merely Beatrice and Dante but Saint Paul...
...Print Room at present is an exhibition of recently acquired facsimiles and photographs published by The Dial in 1923. There are paintings in oil, water colour, and tempera, drawings in crayon and pencil reproduced so miraculously that under glass it is impossible to detect them from originals. Picasso is there, Bonnard and Matisse, Vlaminck and Signac, and the Americans, John Marin and Charles Demuth, three of whose watercolors the Fogg acquired several years...
...labor, we must keep it free of the influence of money. That means, of course, that we must scotch corruption relentlessly wherever we find it. In dealing with this question of corruption, the trouble is that corruption shades off in a hundred different ways that become increasingly difficult to detect...
...This, of course, is all but impossible to detect, and when detected is generally incapable of proof. At times the bribe takes the form of a heavy contribution to party funds, which is distributed in devious ways...
...cables. Signor Mussolini's intimates, not displeased, reminded his detractors that even as a bricklayer and before that as a hod-carrier, the young Benito revealed the titanic spiritual vigor which later made him master of Italy. Few are possessed of so little "hindsight" that they cannot detect the hand of the present Dictator in a letter which the hodman wrote to a fellow laborer on Sept. 3, 1902. "Dear Friend, "On Saturday, together with a painter out of employment, I went to Orbe-to get taken on as a manual laborer. I found work and on Monday...