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...Brothers (Rank; Prestige) is one of those "stark" dramas about people very close to nature, in which strong men snarl at each other over a morsel of feminine flotsam (Patricia Roc), primitive passions are stripped to their G-strings, simple folk lap up their liquor as avidly as so many intellectuals, and the dialect is as hard to get through as a barbed-wire entanglement...
Brainard himself could remember nothing after the middle of the last lap, when he recalled thinking he would be unable to finish. He admitted he was not in shape for such an undertaking, but has had no after-effects...
...from the side of their kitchen ranges and their radios. There were truant school-boys looking for a weekly thrill to help let loose their natural energy. In front of me was a very young mother with her shopping bundles and a copy of the Boston Record on her lap, and beside her was what has been rightly called the hope of our country--a squirming baby...
...quiet ceremony, Joseph Armstrong laid the cornerstone of his new building. Into it will go the letters Browning exchanged with Florence Nightingale, Leigh Hunt, Benjamin Jowett. There will be Browning's clock, snuffbox, diary, account books, first editions of all his works, the portfolio he held in his lap when he wrote. Only one of Armstrong's treasures will not be there-Browning's ring, which Joseph Armstrong wears himself and absentmindedly twists when talking...
Four peace-seeking Methodist readers laid a modest proposal in the lap of Colonel Robert R. McCormick's mighty, isolationist Chicago Tribune. Would the Tribune please cooperate, they wrote, in "the creation of a favorable public opinion...