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...experience is before us. . . . God help the farmer! . . . Nobody here knows what this bill's all about. . . . It's a gigantic bonus at the expense of the consuming public. . . . The time for panaceas is past. . . . If a copy of this bill should reach Mr. Stalin in the far-off Kremlin he would be inspired with a passing feeling of professional jealousy...
DUNSANY (Lord) Unhappy Far-Off Things. Mint in dust Wrapper...
...eleven years. He declined the Bishop Coadjutorship of West Texas and a Chicago church. In 1921 he went to Washington's Epiphany. Two years later there was a diocesan convention in Washington. The Cathedral's executive secretary, Edwin N. Lewis, says that on that fateful day, on the far-off New York Central Lines many an engineer and fireman leaned from his cab to ask: "How's our Bishop running?" Then they learned that Railman Freeman was a bishop...
Dixon. Sea captains, returning to Salem from far-off ports, used to bring back graphite. About 1827 Joseph Dixon began buying graphite and making crucibles out of it. He died in 1869. Twelve years later. E. F. C. Young reorganized the company, began making pencils. Joseph Dixon Crucible Co. is the one pencil concern whose stock can be bought by the public. It is also one of the largest makers of crucibles, lubricants, paint and other graphite products. It does not report earnings but stockholders have received generous dividends-$110 a share...
Zombie, Mr. William Seabrook's romantic fibs about far-off places do no one any harm, have certainly not harmed Zombie, whose playwright (Kenneth Webb) seems to have read Author Seabrook's The Magic Island. Haitian zombies are those unfortunate people who have been resurrected from the grave and placed in peonage by villainous masters. With one of these voodooistic overlords a family of white planters comes in contact, thus giving Zombie its motivation. For the most part wretchedly acted (including the work of Miss Pauline Starke, deep-voiced onetime film actress) and beset with deplorably written dialog, Zombie...