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...Quay (a Congressional Medal of Honor winner in the Civil War) who brought the alliance between the Republican Party and business interests to its fullest flower. A colleague said that Quay had "a consummate skill in calculating political quantities." He also had a profound Pennsylvania contempt for political hypocrisy. Quay and the Pennsylvania Railroad sent carloads of men into doubtful Indiana to vote for Harrison against Cleveland. When Harrison said: "Providence has given us the victory," Quay snarled: "Think of the man. He ought to know Providence had nothing to do with...
...meeting had just begun when 20 hoodlums broke into the banquet room, upset tables, heaved chairs and flower pots, and beat up two elderly scholars. On their heels came Rhee's uniformed police, who made a great show of arresting four of the rioters, but also arrested at least one of the rioters' victims. "We don't know who they are," said Rhee's propaganda directors blandly of the troublemaking goon squad. But an American who saw the show recognized one of the gang's leaders as a member of the rough, tough police force...
Thornton, whose botany was not so sharp as his sense of the picturesque, insisted that his artists give each flower a romantically appropriate setting: Dutch meadows for the tulips, mountain heights for the kalmia, a forbidding coast for the American cowslip, a gothic midnight for the night-blowing cereus. If the results have more period charm than truth-to-nature, it is partly because flowers are among the most difficult challenges a painter can pick. Flowers are delicate as eyelids, complex as blood vessels, vital as fire, and their colors make paint look muddy by comparison. Yet artists-an ambitious...
Georgia O'Keeffe, "painter who opens to us the beauty both of flower and of skull, matriarch of American art" ............Litt.D...
Which Is the Flower? Manning constantly worries about his ship. He hates to linger at the captain's table (likely guests on the maiden voyage: Margaret Truman, the Vincent Astors, United Aircraft's Fred Rentschler and wife, the U.S. Lines' President John Franklin). Says he: "I get uneasy wondering what's going on up top." Though he abominates small talk, Manning has taught himself a few conversational gambits. One of them is to lean around a vase of flowers and say to the lady passenger opposite: "I can hardly tell which is the flower." Says Manning...