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...enter the arena of politics. Are the compensations adequate? This may be an important factor. A good lawyer can command greater fees in a single week than he would receive in an entire year in salary as a member of the President's cabinet. But there is a glamor to public life and a consciousness of being engaged in vitally important work that frequently offsets the financial disadvantages...
Daniel Garber is essentially a painter of countrysides−gentle and spacious landscapes touched with the glamor of an April reticence, the regretful mists of fading summer, old houses, lanes, bridges, windless leaves enchanting a forest avenue. He paints on a toned canvas with a short stroke, a small brush. Shining spots of canvas show through the paint. Notable is his portrait of a girl in blue mending her underwear out-of-doors in the ripple and shadow of sunlight and uneasy willow branches. Yet for all this iridescent preciosity, there is solidity of grouping, vigorous draughtmanship, broad effects...
...courts must struggle steadily on alone, sometimes erring but always trying to protect society from such dangers. Their worst enemies are not the criminal's friends, or false witnesses, but often the people themselves whom they are trying to safeguard, foolishly blinded as they are by the false glamor of crime...
...select group of American young men to study at Oxford, he set up a greater claim to the gratitude of posterity than he had done by all his brilliant achievement as an empire builder in South Africa: That endowment was a modest beginning. It had nothing of the popular glamor of a Cape to Cairo project, but it was of great significance to the future progress of the world...
About 41 years of age, Zinoviev is a man of arresting appearance, exuding "a picturesque madness that adds glamor to his character." His round head is surmounted by a shock of bushy black hair; his eyes, like those of all born revolutionaries, are coal black, luminous, revealing intensity and some times an appealing tenderness, but capable of flashing fire-"ashes and sparks my words among mankind." In stature he is of medium height, with a thick-set figure, beefy as a bull...