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...pocket at press conferences but stopped it when someone remarked that the Government paid for the paper cups. She uses no powder, no rouge, no perfume, dresses mostly in severe blacks and dark browns. Her eyes are dark and brilliant. She has shapely white hands that flutter expressively as she talks. She uses the broad Bostonian "A," never gropes for words. In five months Madam Secretary Perkins has started an elaborate investigation by distinguished citizens to improve the Immigration Bureau; organized the new Federal Employment Service; launched a thoroughgoing survey of the shirt industry to weed out sweatshops; jacked...
...advanced men, Mr. Shaw is not quite able to believe that the world has caught up with him. His one American speech was devoted to a triumphant exposition of the cross purposes at which finance works--a misfortune of which his hearers were already very painfully aware. A slight flutter was raised when the speaker dryly complimented the American people as the saviours of Russia, or the saviours of communism, and then pointed out that our "natural political science" thus bulwarked our own capitalistic monopoly. But in the main, those who merely wait another manifestation of the vigorous thought...
...ages philosophers have racked their brains over a riddle they call "appearance-&-reality." No answer to it has yet been found. Philosopher-Poet-Playwright Pirandello, who likes to speculate on marginal ideas, takes a flutter on this one in One, None and a Hundred Thousand. Author Pirandello makes his hero ask himself a truly embarrassing question: "Who arn I?" Some of his answers are in the title...
...four of the birds then streaked through the aperture of the great orange-peel doors. Outside, two of them (Miss Macon & Miss Georgia) detached themselves from the rest, bent a course for Macon 500 mi. away. The others, veterans of the christening of the Akron in 1931, had to flutter only three miles to the coops of Tire Builder Frank Eisentraut on the north side of town and were home in five minutes. However, 14 of the Eisentraut flock disgraced themselves by choosing comfortable perches among the lofty girders of the dock, where they remained until the next...
Helen Keller in a syndicated story told of meeting Writer George Bernard Shaw in Lady Astor's London drawing-room. Miss Keller had been deeply affected by Pygmalion and Saint Joan, waited long in a flutter of hero worship for the great Shaw to wake from a nap. When he came, she groped out her hand, felt a hand "bristling with egotism" take it slackly. She: "I've wanted to know you for ever so long." He: "Why do all you Americans say the same thing?" Her companion tapped his words into her hand. Lady Astor...