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...smoldering ember of the new U.S. foreign policy was fanned into brisk flame last week. New York's roaring Representative John Taber discovered-after others had pointed it out to him-that the U.S. had shipped $113 million worth of exports to unfriendly Russia in the first nine months of 1947. Cried he: "A constant and deliberate violation of the law. . . . We are providing with our own funds the things with which Russia can destroy...
...play of Constantine's she speaks his highfalutin but charged lines mechanically; in Act IV she repeats them, makes them live. It is in delimiting his characters without disfiguring them, in acknowledging their souls but questioning their perspective that Chekhov gives to The Sea Gull a kind of ember like glow...
Attention was diverted at this point by a stenographer who was quietly emptying all the spittoons on a pink plush chair. During the scuffle the chair had been set afire by a cigar ember...
...vicissitudes of life have not changed the Vagabond's silent enjoyment in the little things in life. Starlight, cool freshly laundered sheets, a patch of cloud, an ember glowing in the night, a dish heaped high with spaghetti bologiese and the light on the faces of little children, give him a twinge of sweet pain as if he had reawakened some memory of the days when his immortal soul strayed through regions bathed in endless beauty on the journey from the outer spheres. The Vagabond is old in love and the world has taught him to keep...
Died. John F. Barrett, 73, longtime Chicago grain trader, member of the Chicago Board of Trade since 1881; in Chicago. He was famed as a weather guesser, basing his guesses on the direction of the prevailing winds on the Catholic prayer & fast days before each solstice & equinox (ember-days). He bet the temperature would not go to zero between Dec. 20, 1930 and March 1, 1931, collected $1,250 from fellow Board members...