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...seemed to speak. He seemed to say: ... Go and speak to those who still gather in my name. Say that I dwell about the stout and burdened heart that bears the nation on it. And if you see him, speak to Hoover for me and say that his road is the one I traveled. Say that it is the path cleared by time for those who can walk alone toward these immortal fields where you sought and found...
Thus once again flared up the everlasting issue provided by Belgians who dwell near the Dutch frontier, speak Flemish and support secessionist movements. During the War, Allied censorship and propaganda concealed from U. S. citizens the existence in Belgium of a Flemish public opinion which disapproved completely of fighting Germany. Today in their great city of Antwerp, fourth largest port in Europe, portly Flemish merchants often shock U. S. exporters by talking like this...
...Leonards-on-Sea. Hayrides, all-day suckers, caterpillars in matchboxes, unripe pears, bellyaches and bellyaching, make half the Kaye-Smith children's fun. Their simple growing love for the Sussex countryside and country people makes up the other half. Wherever they may come to live, their thoughts will dwell on Sussex, like Authoress Kaye-Smith's books: Sussex Gorse, Tamarisk Town, Green Apple Harvest, Joanna Godden, The End of the House of Alard, The Village Doctor, Shepherds in Sackcloth, Susan Spray. Even should Selina come to marrying a Sussex clergyman like Miss Kaye-Smith's husband...
...unnecessary," said the Work Banker, "to emphasize the havoc wrought by this vast movement of liquid funds . . . which was increased rather than reduced by the warning implied in Mr. Hoover's proposal ... or to dwell upon the stagnation resulting from the magnitude of the sums immobilized. They nave contributed each their part to the persistent fall of prices and they have accentuated the deflationary forces which are oppressing world economy...
Just as we find interest in learning more of the nature of the earth upon which we dwell, discovering either the intimate secrets of its past, present, and future through the study of geology, or the influence of surface conditions upon our lives as treated by geography, why should we not find equal interest in a knowledge of the true nature of planetary motions and of the secrets of the starry realms? To those who would expand their mental horizon beyond the barriers of the earth and would have a keener appreciation of man's place in the universe...