Word: mockingbirds
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...public has been misled by Democratic propaganda. She shows other virtues, in failing miserably to make plausible an implausible scene of the crippled showgirl who gives it all up to go home, in giving an impersonation of Greta Garbo as the more intelligent critics see that Swedish mockingbird, and by spreading wide her amazing eyes at the proper moments...
...Significance. Biographer Don Carlos Seitz has handled the eye-opening, breath-taking spectacle of the Bennetts with skill that is both accurate and vivid. On finishing the volume, one is sorry that there are today no editor-owners who pause on their yachts to demand a mockingbird or to send a Stanley to Africa...