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Night & Day. It was one thing for the President to close all the banks in the land with one pen-flourish; it was quite another thing for his Secretary of the Treasury to get them open again. The machinery for such an operation was enormous and Mr. Woodin had scant knowledge of it. Day after day he strove to master new details at his cluttered desk while harassed bankers gathered in his outer office from every quarter of the country to clamor for Treasury concessions, instructions. Night after night he worked until 2 o'clock at the White House...
...College lies a few hours west of Chicago. It is a struggling little plantation of bay and laurel choking in the broad fields of alien corn. It was inherited by Harry Conway (James Rennie), and he and his wife (Lily Cahill) are rich and tolerant enough to let it flourish-within certain limits. Its faculty is a representative cross-cut of indigenous academic life. There are a prig and a politician. Small, timid Professor Stockton (E. J. Ballantine) has found that pistol practice and an occasional mild laxative keep his nerve up. Another professor, blessedly resigned, loves to teach...
...Arts, deals with the influence of the Flemish upon the Spanish painters in the latter part of the fifteenth century. Explaining the solidifying effect of the uniting of the kingdoms of Castile and Leon by the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella, Post shows how the arts were able to flourish under these two great patrons. This is the fourth of a series of ten or fifteen volumes which will cover the entire history of Spanish painting...
Major General James Dinkins, Chief of Cavalry of the United Confederate Veterans, has so enjoyed reading "The Spillway," a colyum in the New Orleans Item, that with a fine flourish he commissioned its conductor, William G. Wiegand...
...conventional classification of Audubon's time (particularly the flycatcher family). A genius, unwilling to allow any plate to be un-notable, Audubon often made his birds unrealistically spectacular. Critics perceive that Brasher has heId faithfully to the probable background and the actual bird, rarely permitting himself a flourish. Not a romantic naturalist, he has always gone straight to the nearest example of the bird he wanted. He sketched the golden eagle in the New York Zoological Garden, the valley quail in the Pittsburgh Zoo. When he painted the final pictures, he verified his colors from the bird skin collection...