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...their rendering of speech or verse. (The musicomedy-sized Century Theater made for hearing trouble.) But they had the main thing-a real Shakespearean robustiousness. In Part I they contrived a fine balance between the historical scenes and the humorous ones, a telling contrast between that arch-romantic and exemplar of heraldic honor, Hotspur, and that arch-realist and epitome of worldly wisdom, Falstaff. And they had for this two brilliant actors...
...Manhattan last week, Patrolman Joseph Gardner took into custody a modern exemplar of this excruciating old breed. Officer Gardner got his evidence by spending an evening with one eye glued to a crack in the window shade of Peter Gorgak's barbershop on Third Avenue. Through this peephole he could see in the barbershop mirror an incongruous sight: Mr. Gorgak sitting in his own barber chair having his teeth drilled and dentaled up by a stranger...
...other historic instances confirm the European source of our own art of city planning. Our most striking inventions, our most useful techniques, have often had their beginnings across the seas. . . . Those magnificent parkways, for example, which reach out in all directions from our great cities have their prototype and exemplar in the autostrade which star the cities of Hanover and Berlin...
...invasion of its markets by fuel oil, gas and water power have starved it. Its rachitic bones show through in dingy, paint-scaled mining towns, in the pay average of its workers: $902 (before deductions) last year, although their daily wage scale is $6 ($5.60 in the South). Prime exemplar of old-fashioned atomic competition, the industry has 13,500 producers, none of whom does 5% of the total business...
...Albert Einstein, Dr. George Richards Minot (who later received a Nobel Prize), the late great Dr. William Henry Welch (1849-1934). The salutes to Dr. Libman filled three Libman Anniversary Volumes. Dr. Welch, who wrote the introduction, needed ten epithets for his hero: "Teacher, investigator, writer, skilled physician, exemplar and promoter of scientific research, generous helper of fellow-workers and pupils, guide, leader and friend of a devoted band of disciples...