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...managed to keep, through the happy and tragic years of his life. On the plus side is his passion for the passion that makes flowers bloom, trees scrape stars, and some people love each other. In his latest book, as in his first, Frost still goes for this heavenward earth-love as a horse goes for oats-see parts of his Come In, for instance. When he goes limpingly, as he does on many pages of his book, it is less because of his age than because he has come more & more to favor his worst poetical fault-his rascally...
This week, on Saturday afternoon, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera will loop heavenward its new $13,000 gold curtain, revealing an inner curtain painted like a picture book. On the book is a likeness of Soprano Lily Pons, in red-white-&-blue uniform and cocked hat, surrounded by Alps and military symbols...
...Brooke began to creep up until he pulled even at the 27th. At the 29th, the Virginia Creeper was down again. At the 35th the match was all even once more; a 17-ft putt would put Brooke in front, with only one more hole to play. Looking heavenward in supplication, Brooke spied a rainbow arching over gloomy Mt. Equinox. "I've got a rainbow round my shoulder and I'm going to cook this putt," he drawled. To the astonishment of the gallery he did-and a few minutes later, the 20-year-old Cavalier...
Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston speaks to almost anybody, but his thoughts are definitely heavenward. He is 77, and in his old age he broods much about the vast stores of energy in sunlight which man does not utilize. In his youth he was closer to earth. Fresh from Harvard with a magna cum laude (1882), he went out to western Pennsylvania to help his brother build a plant for making carbon black (used in printing ink, shoe polish, automobile tires, etc.) from natural gas.* From carbon black he made a fortune. During the War, when he was nearing...
...Negro origin-as the Black Bottom, "shag," Suzi-Q, Charleston, "truckin'," as well as old square-dance turns like London Bridge, and a formation which resembles an Indian Rain Dance. The Big Apple invariably ends upon a somewhat reverent note, with everybody leaning back and raising his arms heavenward. This movement is called "Praise Allah." Through it all, the "caller" shouts continuously-"Truck to the right. . . . Reverse it. . . . To the left. . . . In place. . . . Stomp that right foot. . . . Swing it. . . . All right, shine. . . . Suzi-Q to the right. . . . Praise Allah...