Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In your issue of Nov. 11, page 58, you announced the purchase and early arrival of a one quarter million dollar pipe organ by Pierre Samuel duPont in Philadelphia, and as such superb musical instruments as this are so rare, would like to know if this music will go on the air and if so from what station...
...which was scrawled "For God's sake, give them what they want," followed by Warden Jennings' signature. The priest's advent was an accident, not to be considered, an irrelevant, frantic voice, begging them to think, to undo what they had done. His words fell on the deaf faces like a flurry of wind on stone...
...Ability to meet world-wide competition of consolidated foreign units like Britain's Cables & Wireless...
Neither Mr. Powys nor his "Fables" are for the poor mortal who likes a good story, but who can not abide "literature." Like a medium, this clever writer makes such homely objects as a bucket and a rope scamper and talk worldly wisdom in a naive accent. And if you would find the love affairs of "The Seaweed and the Cuckoo-Clock" amusing and enlightening you will proclaim "Fables" an important piece of workmanship. There is no doubt that this little book is very much the thing for the right people...
...left wondering how the problem is to be solved, half hoping that it will be, yet knowing that the attainment of a god-like objectivity would first be necessary. And, sure enough, Acts II and III leave the "drame a these", and rely purely on their value as good theatre to carry them over. As theatre they go over, but what gave promise of being a problem play that would not soon be outdated by the quick solution of the problem in the world outside the theatre, turns into a rather good melodrama whose prime fault is that its personal...