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...puts on his second daily broadcast. Then he goes home, lunches and at 3 p.m. takes a nap. When he wakes up he feels that a second day is beginning-his day to study history and do his scholarly writing. Instead of using a typewriter, Biographer Freeman prints his manuscript in a microscopic hand. At 6:30 he dines with Mrs. Freeman; at 8:45 he retires...
...famous Pushman called The Book of Life. "In this picture," he said, "there are several objects, namely, an iridescent vase containing a fading rose, a figure of a saint from the medieval ages, with a background of an ancient textile, against which rests an open manuscript-the last page of the Book of Life...
...rattled and rain fell in streams. The public-address system went dead; telegraph lines were washed out, everybody around the platform broke for cover. All but Knox: he stuck it out in the deluge as long as he could stand it, soaked to the skin, reading doggedly through his manuscript, grinning, gesturing. Few could hear him-but he won a lot of friends that...
Included among some patriotic poems now on exhibition in the Poetry Room in the Widener Library is the original first draft of the hymn "America", accompanied by the author's manuscript story of its composition. In the same case are shown a manuscript of Oliver Wendell Holmes' adaptation of "Hall Columbia" which was introduced in 1798 to appeal to a unified national spirit...
...hands became "a common language of hand and eye," with marked divergences of idiom-the New Englander's "downright pleasure in stripped forms and beautifully finished plain surfaces," the more complex art of figurehead carving, the decorative designs of the Pennsylvania Germans which (derived from the manuscript paintings of medieval monasteries) gave expression to "all the great ceremonial relationships...