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...enthusiasm. When Dewey finds her kissing the athletic coach, whom he also idolizes, he is heartbroken, persuades his bumbling father (Frank M. Thomas Sr.) to send him to boarding school. Twenty years later Dewey, now an extremely important personage in the shipping industry encounters the teacher, dowdy and myopic, in a Washington hotel, is tempted to take her to dinner, buys her a bunch of violets instead...
...retreat was from a ponderous myopic sexagenarian lumberman named William Elbert Belcher. For 29 years Mr. Belcher has been modestly engaged in turning the slash pine of Bibb County, Ala. into merchantable lumber. The retreat was also from one of the most respected and uncompromising septuagenarians of the South, Federal Judge William Irwin Grubb of Birmingham, whose decisions are very rarely reversed by higher courts. Last October, the Government brought Lumberman Belcher to trial before Judge Grubb on charges of paying lower wages and working his men longer hours than NRA's lumber code allowed. Defendant Belcher readily admitted...
Dreiser's report of the Wilkes-Barre trial last week likewise was an indictment of the "system." And, like the novel, his accounts were turgid, myopic, verbose, sorely needing the astringent blue pencil of a copy desk. He seemed to be arguing that had the boy had more money, he would not have got himself or his girl into trouble. Clearest point: "I am inclined to agree with the French that crimes which concern love and passion and the ambition of youth are nothing which the law, in its cold, calculating and in the main commercial mood, should have anything...
...your March 19 issue on p. 14 you speak of Circuit Judge Allen as having "a cordial handshake and myopic eyes." From the appearance of her eyes in the accompanying photograph, I would suggest that the Judge is hyperopic, not myopic; in other words "farsighted" not "near-sighted...
...years later she returned to Cleveland as the Plain Dealer's music editor. New York University gave her an LL. B. An able feminist, a Dry, an opponent of war, she soon became a heroine to women. A quiet, thin-lipped woman with a cordial hand shake and myopic eyes, she rises at 5:30 a. m., exercises to a phonograph before going to work. Weekends she hikes. Her decisions from the Supreme Court bench have been learned, middle-of-the-roadish. Had President Roosevelt withheld his appointment one fortnight, he would have given Judge Allen a pretty birthday...