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Record readers settled down to several hours' solid entertainment, for no man in Congress has such a gift for making two long words do the work of one short one. The range of his sesquipedalian verbal achievements spread from masterly Johnsonian periods on the occasion of "Remarks of Senator Ashurst on the Steamship President Grant on Saturday, October 26, 1935. Presenting to Vice President Garner a Pair of Sox to be Worn When He Has an Audience with the Emperor of Japan," to sombre views on mankind's future, viz.: "It is still an open question...
...SWAN OF LICHFIELD-Edited by Hesketh Pearson - Oxford University Press ($3.50). Selected correspondence of Anna Seward, an 18th Century highbrow journalist whose indiscreet literary anecdotes and witty rhetoric tickled her contemporaries, but "nauseated" the next generation's Victorians, who called her Johnsonian anecdotes an outrage...
...concerned Dr. Johnson and his circle. Mr. Tinker's subject has not yet been announced, but it is to be hoped that, although his own mid-eighteenth century may be too prosy for the purpose of poetic lectures, he will manage to distill a little of the dry Boswell-Johnsonian wisdom into his remarks. There is every possibility that the S. R. O. sign will be hung out for Mr. Tinker as it was for Robert Frost...
Present-day boys at the large, smart, modern school in the gentle hills of mid-New Jersey are inclined to view the Johnsonian pranks as childish. Their chief stunt is to make "rhinies" (new boys) wear special caps, roll down trouser cuffs, keep off the grass. They stop classes every morning for a 15-min. session of crackers & milk. Lawrenceville enrollment has grown from 60-odd to about 500 and a Student Council rules the campus with a firm hand. It may expel any boy for cause, may even recommend the dismissal of a master. Popular in the Midwest, Lawrenceville...
...that the President is subscribing to "recovery before reform," it does at least indicate that he may put recovery before relief. All in all, there is a strong presumption in favor of the belief that the National Industrial Recovery Board is but a means of tapering off after the Johnsonian...