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...drums, but these few played the most intricate rhythms with wonderful precision. And when it wanted to, the Michigan Band could play softly as well as loud: during the exciting moments between touchdown and goal kick, if you noticed, it kept right on playing, double pianissimo, without sacrificing a jot of its balance or subtlety of tone...
...them, and his personal liking. Those who attract his mind are usually those who fight a brilliant kind of intellectual guerrilla warfare which their opponents call outright unscrupulous. All are New Dealers to the core-which perhaps explains Mr. Roosevelt's refusal up to now to surrender one jot of the New Deal in the interest of Defense. Yet, Harry Hopkins again excepted, the President's warm, confiding friendliness is reserved for men who are comfortably conservative, cautious, even stodgy by the standards of Mr. Roosevelt's young brilliants. Nor is this out of character: Franklin Roosevelt...
Artist Freeman never stays seated long, keeps popping up to jot down more bits of Manhattery. His drawings and paintings have the same crowded vitality that Cruikshank and Leech got into their illustrations of Dickens' London, the same knack of making ragpickers a touch romantic. Some of his canvases: Sax Sec-lion, a red-coated Negro band turning on the heat in Harlem; Chatham Square Street Fight, two stevedores sparring, while kids streak up to see the fun; Such Sweet Sorrow, a pair of drunks embracing under...
Opening Norway's Storting. King Haakon VII was less solicitous for Finland but not a jot less concerned with defense. "I hope," he said, "the new year will bring peace for all human beings, especially for our brother country in the east. . . . Training for the Army will follow the same directive as during past years, but there will be some enlargement. Naval defenses will be changed and enlarged...
...former Communist assured questioners that he had not varied one jot from the principles which he had endorsed before the outbreak of the European...