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...hardly been still a moment : kind, literal, awesomely helpful and endlessly patient, she has trotted up & down the stairways of the world, year after year - straightening its curtains, eying its plumbing, and occasionally admonishing the landlords of those political slums be hind the Iron Curtain, in sharp but hope ful tones. Sense & Sensibility. Her own country men are divided on the question of wheth er or not Mrs. Roosevelt is a woman of sense; but even the hardest-shelled Republican or deepest-Southern Democrat would probably agree (with oaths) that she is a woman of sensibility. Ever since she first...
...were given dominion.' " What did it all mean? Cobina left the mystery for the mystics to explain, and hurried home to fasten her dominion on New York City. In a short time the young singer was surrounded by famous admirers (T.R. himself, she says, called her voice "Deelight-ful!"), won the patronage of the famed operatic soprano, Mme. Frances Alda, and married bestselling Novelist Owen (Stover at Yale) Johnson...
...have the clue to some important news development, every one of them is important to the correspondent. His first b is to screen the storytellers-some-,,_Qmes a near impossible task. Many a tipster has no more identification to 'offer than a face, a voice and a doubt ful name...
Anzac airmen knew about Mohammed's uncle, who had the voice of 100 trumpets, and Paul Bunyan, who could kill a pond-ful of bullfrogs with a single shout. Big, barrel-chested, ramrod-stiff Jimmy Duncan came close to outshouting them both. The legend was that once when Jimmy told a lagging ground crew to "pick up those feet," the pilot of a bomber approaching the airdrome hastily retracted his landing gear. On an occasion when Jimmy was drilling a squad of recruits in a Wellington park, another squad half a mile away had to quit because they couldn...
...from Judge Medina's charge to the jury) ". . .These defendants had the right to advocate by peace ful and lawful means any and all changes in the laws and in the Constitution; they had the right to criticize the President of the United States and the Congress; they had the right to assert that World War II, prior to the invasion of Russia by Germany, was an unjust war, an imperialist war and that upon such invasion it became a just war worthy of all material and moral support ; and they had the right publicly to express these views...