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...mood, somewhat in the setting of South Wind (sophisticated classic by Norman Douglas) this book has some of its characteristics-a sharp satire, a style of suave surprises. But through its pages blows not a strong and pungent sirocco; instead a slow and tepid wind in which insects may hover lazily. Author Faulkner in this casual and breezy work seems always on the verge of an important irony which he never produces. His second novel is a step up in technique, a step down in importance from his powerful Soldiers...
...Freshman will look for guidance. No bills are being peddled, no fields exploited; the chief objective of these articles is to illuminate obscure points and to explain matters which to the uninitiated may seem technical and menacing. If the present articles succeed in partly diffusing these clouds which usually hover about Freshman predilections they will not have failed in their...
...save twelve minutes through going by water. Even at that he would probably have to carry a spare boat with him because only one of the two boats was able to finish out the race. There may, possibly be a place for Mr. Wood as legislative courier. He can hover near the New York water-front, engines warming up, and then whisk a Senator to Albany in time to cast the deciding vote. Aside from this, his motor boat performances can be nothing more ban amusing and ornamental...
...this subject out of the way and disposed of, instead of which it more than smoulders. Let us recite the facts in orderly fashion certain Princetonians waited on President Coolidge, who with the eye of good-natured criticism remarked on the dimensions of their trousers, how they seemed to hover towards baggy descent, and upon the supposed absence of braces for the said two-legged petticoats. The words were taken as they were uttered, and the young Princetonians received the chaff in the spirit in which it was given them, as gentlemen. They returned to Princeton, a college...
Provided any British helicopter (with pilot) attains an altitude of 2,000 feet-and, in addition, shows ability to hover and to remain stationary in the air for half an hour in a 20 mile wind-its inventor will receive a ?50,000 prize, the British Air Ministry announced. A man in the British Royal Air Force walked slowly into a revolving airplane propeller and was instantaneously killed. Medical opinion attributes the accident to a curious form of hypnotism...