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What sunlight labyrinth of pain He may not enter and endure...
...Crystal. Because he can never find his way in the big cinemansions, "idiotic labyrinth of premieres, first runs," etc., Grierson prefers his neighborhood Crystal. ". . . By the time a film gets to the Crystal, the spit & polish have gone, the confidence trick of presentation and ballyhoo is an old damp squib of months ago, and Lost Horizon, Mr. Deeds, and the Hoot Gibsons, they all come even at last on the billboards. They have to talk across the hard floors and waste spaces of the peanuts to be good, with nothing to warm them except what is inside themselves, and that...
...have smacked of monopoly, it has more often been an apostle of free competition, in which it has shown a notable ability to come out on top. For this reason there has been no talk of nationalizing Unilever, even if the Socialist Government could find a way through the labyrinth of subsidiaries. Furthermore, it is one of the few British companies which has come close to beating U.S. companies at their own game -on their own field. If Britain is to get on her financial feet again, that is a trick which a great many more British companies must learn...
...grand showcase of the Arden beauty empire at 691 Fifth Avenue is guarded by a grey-liveried doorman and a red door marked simply, Elizabeth Arden. Inside, and scattered over a labyrinth of seven floors, is the amazing factory where ladies (from 2½ years to 84) go to get remodeled. The raw product is examined, diagnosed and then put on the Arden production line...
...massive a work, couched in the Murray style (the ex-governor is largely self-taught and his book is one of the longest literary rambles on record), poses certain problems for the lay reader. So Author Murray included a guide through the labyrinth. "First, read 'Post-Logue' at end of Book IX, Volume III; Second, then begin at Chapter A, Book IX, Volume III, and read all that Book; then, Third, begin first Chapter Volume I, keeping in mind parts first read...