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...cars, wood, sand, and concrete. Rough, eager workers with rugged, seamed faces, and stick-like limbs garbed in coarse cloth toil, sweat, wonder, learn, and finally succeed. The most industrious brigade is awarded a banner, the laurel wreath of the worker's state. There is no pomp or glitter, little enough of comfort, many primitive growls and grunts, but no oratory: the whole tone is rough, sodden, gray, inarticulate. The plot is of little or no moment--nay almost non-existent. The picture is too disjointed, too inchoate to be a work of art. No exceptional photographic ability is shown...
...made of mahogany, the Snapper which he sold when light cedar hulls were coming into fashion. With his Ace, built in 1924, he won the International Championship in 1925, the Bacardi Cup in 1927, innumerable minor trophies which, in his house at East Williston (L. I.) make a respectable glitter beside the huge silvery bonfire of the cups he inherited when his father died a year ago. Three years ago he was on the afterguard of the America's Cup contender Whirlwind, built by his friend and star boat rival Landon Thorne. Adrian Iselin, looking very foxy with...
...function of the Federal Government to protect the U. S. border from raids, revolutions, thieves and cut-throats." Back in the Senate last week Senator Connally charged that the War Department was concentrating its forces near the larger cities. "The Secretary of War," exclaimed the Senator, "with a glitter of fear in his eye, referred to Reds and possible Communists that may be abroad in the land...
...readers would yet think, of Cozzens in terms of the late great Joseph Conrad, but even fewer will quarrel with the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice. Author Cozzens has a Kiplingesque flair for dramatizing hard facts, a shrewd zest in making a plain tale move and glitter...
Katharine ("Kay") Brush, 30, is clearly classifiable as a sophisticate. At 17 she was a newspaper reporter, theatrical reviewer, cinema colyumist. She has married, divorced, remarried. Her novels Glitter, Young Man of Manhattan, Red-Headed Woman and her famed short story Night Club won her a reputation for knowing-her-way-about. With pardonable pride College Humor boasted recently that Author Brush, who ''rushes about the world with her eyes open." would write for it a monthly colyum, Manhattan Cocktail...