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...lank figure with a stove-pipe hat has been doing an inordinate amount of stalking through the American scene of late. In our time, when democratic theories are coming in for more than their share of doubt, Abraham Lincoln, hero of democracy par excellence, has become an important symbol at the expense of the man himself. Great eulogies and great debunkings have been poured over his faded memory, rearing him into some abstract, semi-divine legend. In the play, "Abo Lincoln in Illinois," two men--Robert Sherwood, playwright, and Raymond Massey, actor--have striven to bring him back to life...
...with the countryside which they inhabit. But his is a new kind of landscape, one bristling with cranes and pulleys, a valley of machines whose wheels seem as if they might revolve for all eternity. And out of this maelstrom chimneys point upward like lank, black limbs. Breughel, in his work, brings out the essential sameness of man and his natural environment; Fiene shows that man is degenerating into an unimportant phase of a new and artificial environment...
Eleven months ago the down-at-heels Boston Transcript was pushed into bankruptcy by its creditors. Trustee Elias Field found a trouble-shooter in a lank, stoop-shouldered Harvardman named Richard Newhall Johnson, who looks like Jimmy Roosevelt (and hates it) and who had devoted himself since graduation to reorganizing broken down companies and putting them on their feet. Trouble-shooter Johnson had a survey made, from which he found that the most frequent word used by advertisers to describe the paper was "fuddy-duddy." He also found that the Transcript's 30,000 readers were astonishingly loyal...
...Lame, lank, atrabilious Charles Grey Grey is a 32nd generation Northumberlander. He studied engineering at London's Crystal Palace School of Engineering. Never more than a competent draftsman, he took to peddling bicycles, then advertising for a motoring journal, The Autocar. The Autocar's, editors presently discovered in Grey a clever pen, converted him into a reporter, in 1908 gave him his first big assignment: a Paris air show. When Cub Grey pointed out that he spoke no French his editor tut-tutted: "At least you won't be misled by French eloquence." Nor was he ever...
...lank, long-nosed Southern politician, weak from fever, stood on the deck of the cruiser Indianapolis just outside New York Harbor and proudly saluted 81 steel-gray warships in the mightiest display of naval strength ever to pass before a President. By then everybody but pacifists agreed that Claude Augustus Swanson, who had got his job for reasons of political expediency, was one of the best Secretaries of the Navy the U. S. ever...