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...spun by the wind; Lashing him, face and eyes, with my displeasure. " VI I opened him all the guile of the seas - Their sullen, swift-sprung treacheries. To be fought, or forestalled, or dared, or dismissed with laughter. I showed him worth by folly concealed, And the flaw in the soul that a chance revealed- (Lessons remembered-to bear fruit thereafter.) VII "I dealt him power beneath his hand, For trial and proof, with his first command- Himself alone, and no man to gainsay him. On him the end, the means, and the word. And the harsher judgment...
...Cutting, against whom a Democratic wheelhorse, Dennis Chavez, was nominated. After Cutting beat Chavez by 1,284 votes out of 151,000, his victory was contested. Although the liberal-progressive bloc and the New Deal still continued their tacit working agreement, Cutting became the symbol of a basic flaw in that agreement. Then last fortnight, returning from New Mexico where he had been attending to the contest for his seat, Bronson Cutting crashed in Missouri. Franklin Roosevelt had lost his outstanding liberal opponent. Day after the Cutting funeral Democratic Governor Clyde Tingley appointed Dennis Chavez to the Senate...
...Germany hastened the signing last fortnight of the Treaty of Mutual Assistance between France and Russia (TiME, May 13). Last week France, which cherishes its old alliance with Poland even more than its new one with Russia, lost no time in trying to fix up one of the flaws in the new treaty setup, a flaw caused by the fact that Poland's Dictator Pilsudski dis- trusted Russia and rather liked Germany. To Foreign Minister Pierre Laval fell the chore of explaining the innocence of the Franco-Russian treaty to Pilsudski...
Sweet Music (Warner) is Rudy Vallee's most successful venture into cinema. Perceiving that the flaw in his previous productions was the fact that they required him to act, the authors of this one carefully made its hero, Skip Houston, a complimentary portrait of Vallee himself. Consequently, between songs, he is required to do little more than give an imitation of himself which he contrives to do successfully by smiling in a vacuous way and speaking in a low, bland monotone...
...major fault in most Johnson wildlife studies is that they include too much Johnson, too little wild life. Since the means of travel constitutes the principal news in Baboona, this flaw is more than usually noticeable. No grim study of jungle ferocities and hardships. Baboona is rather the record of a unique vacation. It shows Africa in friendly mood, swarming with gay pygmies, ingratiating birds, responsive game fish. Mount Kenya looks like a Swiss Alp on a postcard. The monkeys scratch themselves with holiday enthusiasm. Only the rhinoceroses are ugly, and even they waddle off with gentle indecision. Good shot...