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...suppliant mien in financial matters and of blatant taste in underwear; there is the selfish, ambitious mother who is determined to carve out a musical career for her daughter, despite the girl's love for the inevitable local swain; and then, of course, there is Dudley himself, the typical hail fellow well met of any mid-western Rotary Club who spends his time running prize fights, charity bazaars, and community protest meetings while his paint and varnish factory goes into the red and family difficulties come to a crisis...
...Author. Englishman Percy Wyndham Lewis was born in Maine, in 1886. Precocious, at 15 he studied art at London's Slade School, few years later philosophy under Bergson at the College de France. In 1914 he exhibited paintings in London that led Ezra Pound to hail him as leader of a new school: Vorticism. Vorticist Lewis, together with Pound, edited two numbers of a vitriolic review, Blast, before he enlisted with the Royal Artillery in the War. Since then, an enfant terrible in earnest, he has written many biting books: Tarr, The Art of Being Ruled, Time...
...hole during Arkansas' dark drought days in 1930; 2) his professional and friendly relations with Arkansas' Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson who pressed his appointment. Mr. Couch is a director of Chase National Bank of New York and of Electric Power & Light Co. of New York. Friendly Arkansans hail him as their State's Cecil Rhodes. Speaker John Nance Garner of Texas also got his man on the R. F. C. directorate when President Hoover appointed Jesse Holman Jones, Houston banker, builder (Rice Hotel) & publisher (Chronicle}. As the finance director of the Democratic National Committee, Mr. Jones...
From the graves of our slain Shall thy valour prevail As we greet thee again Hail, Liberty! Hail...
...polite rather than practical aspects, most U. S. archers might find it difficult to transfix rabbits with their points but they are familiar with the graceful phraseology, the wayward ceremony of their sport. If someone were to shout "He! He!" they would answer in kind this time-honored hail of one toxophilite to another. Their bows are made of lemonwood, their arrows of cedar or pine. Last week, 150 of the foremost U. S. toxophilites gathered at Canandaigua, N. Y., for the 51st annual championship of the National Archery Association...