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...weapon had been fashioned by Daniel Webster, mighty verbal swordsman, at a Whig reception at Niblo's Garden, Manhattan, in 1837. Unearthed by French Strother, White House research secretary, it was still so pat and pointed that President Hoover grasped its hilt and made it flash and glitter in a statement explaining why the U. S. could neither tax nor borrow two billions out of its people to pay off the Bonus (see p. 8). Declared the President...
Mark Twain has written of the Missisippi life, its richness and its poverty, its tarnish and its glitter, its fighting and its tranquility as no man before or after has ever been able to. Mississippi was caught in the eddies of his humour and the slow current of his intellect. American literature has come to think of the Missippi Valley as the work of Mark Twain, as the Mississippi Valley is sure that Mark Twain is American Literature...
...however, to know that he is relieving a little the suffering he has seen everywhere about him since childhood. His fame but not his wealth grows until, realizing a debt to his family, he becomes a fashionable doctor with offices on Park Avenue. He becomes dazzled by his own glitter. When his father dies under his hands, the blow is too much. He loses his nerve, only recovers it back on the dirty East Side, operating on the woman he loves (Irene Dunne...
Lionel Barrymore's success in cinema has recently been more marked than that of his brother but he is not now, nor has he ever been, equipped with that peculiar glitter that surrounds his brother. The fact that Lionel's nose is too blunt for any critic to have described him as "an elegant paper cutter moving through the drama" may somewhat account for this. He is neither a dope-fiend nor a drunkard; he seldom abuses critics in print and he made his stage debut at 15. Like his brother, he later tried to be a painter...
...place in my life that was so far away from the American people". But Huey Lond is no mere doctrinaire; he can treat the most practical problems with resource and agility. The case of the Waldorf sandwich is a case in point. With all the gilt and glitter of the new Astoria has come a change in the institution's culinary department. The new Waldorf sandwich lacks the Swiss cheese and butter of the older school, the school of Long remembrance. So scoffing was the Senator from Louisiana of this new delicacy that Chef Oscar himself was induced to return...