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...laws to put an end to a serious U. S. shortage of servant girls. Another time he helped prevent the adoption of Daylight Saving Time in the District of Columbia by pointing out that the "hungry lions and ravishing tigers" in the Washington zoo would set up "such a howl as you never heard" if their feeding-hours were changed. Minister Michael MacWhite of the Irish Free State still remembers arranging an audience with the Pope in Rome to which Sol went wearing several dozen rosaries so as to have them blessed for his Irish constituents at home. Later...
With the publication of The Arabian Nights five years before his death in 1890, Burton became a literary sensation, was knighted by Queen Victoria-not for his embarrassingly faithful translation but for his explorations. His next effort, a translation of The Scented Garden, was to make "Mrs. Grundy howl." But the storm he foresaw over its publication broke instead over Isabel when horrified litterateurs, among them Burton's close crony Swinburne, learned that immediately after Burton's death she had destroyed the manuscript along with his diaries for 40 years...
...bold plan which he thought would be so destructive to military resources and civilian morale that the exhausted Confederates would throw up the sponge and end the Civil War. In November, after General Grant had reluctantly sanctioned this maneuver, General Sherman assured everyone that he would "make Georgia howl," and began his historic March To The Sea. A month later, when the March ended at Savannah, Georgians had ample reason to howl and howl they did. By the tough general's own conservative estimate, the damage done amounted to $100,000,000. It was South Carolina's turn...
Tide Rising (by George Brewer Jr.; Aldrich & Myers, producers) is a praiseworthy attempt to dramatize the political middle-of-the-road and to distinguish, in the blind storm of passionate prejudices which howl from the Right and Left, the path of truth and justice. In so doing, Playwright Brewer, who wrote Dark Victory for Tallulah Bankhead two seasons ago, occasionally loses his dramatic footing, but never his sense of criticism or fair play...
...entire fresco panel by Jean Chariot chopped off a Mexican wall because it did not match his own work on the same building, but when his mural in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center was destroyed two years ago (TIME, Feb. 26, 1934 et ante), he raised such a howl that sympathizers enabled him to repaint it in Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts. Last week Muralist Rivera was even louder...