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...hearty voice began to grate with constant wear till it sounded like someone shucking corn. He proclaimed: "You'll hear me called a New Dealer and a Democrat. If there's one thing I have done it's fight the New Deal. Why, some of these other fellows who call themselves Republicans were selling off the regalia while I was defending the lodge." To a statement from 40 Republican Congressmen which hinted that he was "unavailable" because he was a neophyte Republican, onetime Democrat Willkie retorted in a favorite phrase: "That's a lot of spinach...
...crouches by the grate...
Invited to dinner by Mabel Dodge, Tony told her he could make himself invisible, and that the fire in her grate was a good friend of his. Thereafter Tony brought other Indians to dance and sing at Mabel Dodge's tea parties, became her expert on Indian affairs. Visiting daily at Tony's house, Mabel taught knitting to his beautiful, fastidious wife, who (unlike other Taos Indian women) "had a slightly malicious, sharp humor, but not real warmth." An imitation of Tony's poker-faced expression proved valuable to Mabel when she returned from these visits...
...tried again but never repeated his success. When Harriet finally divorced her husband and married Moody, it was only for a brief honeymoon and a long last illness. After his death she continued to be a friend to the friends of the Muse: her warm-hearted hospitality is still grate fully remembered by many a poet. And before she died (in 1932) she had written a first-rate book that may well outlast her husband's and her husband's memory. Its name: Mrs, William Vaughn Moody's Cook Book...
...bumptious poetasters. To plain readers, who find Poet Robinson's verbal sinuosities occasionally obscure, they may appear largely unintelligible. But youthful amateurs of poetry will con them with interest, sometimes with enthusiasm. Their elders will not be quick to applaud either their language or their sentiments: both grate harshly...