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...friend. Not until 1938, when the Nonesuch Press published over 8,000 intimate items of Dickens' correspondence, did the public learn what it had already guessed-that David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers had been written by a very human being, not by a bearded Apollo in a frockcoat...
...shock-brigader, the kerchief md ribbons of a young Communist girL the passing banner of the shock-brigade, the childish poster with its turtle or its steam engine, or the torn canvas trousers-are they not a thousand, thousand times more precious to us than Danton's brown frockcoat, Desmoulins' overturned chair, the Phrygian night cap, the order for arrest signed by the blue hands of Robespierre, the last letter of the Queen, and the faded tri-color cockade, ancient and light, like a dry flower?" So says Author Valentine Kataev. Capitalist readers might reply: easier said than...
...Patron Clark. Important citizens, including Mayor John Clinton Porter, gathered in Pershing Square across from the Auditorium. Laudatory speeches were made. Mrs. Leafie Sloan-Orcutt, an imposing grey-haired dowager representing the Los Angeles Philharmonic Woman's Committee, pulled a silken cord, revealed a bronze Beethoven in long frockcoat, baggy trousers, hands clasped characteristically behind his back. Philharmonic musicians, who gave the statue in Patron Clark's honor, sealed their gift with a stirring performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
They pictured British Secretary for War Minister Viscount Hailsham pacing up & down his suite in the Hotel Chateau Laurier when his baggage failed to arrive. They imagined him exclaiming, "My Kingdom for a frockcoat and topper...
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