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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baby was taken away to be "adopted." Weeks later, said Anna, she had learned through an entirely different case the identity of the woman who had her child. She now wanted him back. In his recommendation to the Court of Appeals, tantamount to final decision, Commissioner Limbaugh tenderly took note: "The indescribable but eloquent expression of motherly instinct and affection revealed by Anna Ware when she first saw the baby in court was significant...
Only discordant note in this symphony of reaction was played by Chairman Joseph Warren Madden of the National Labor Relations Board. Indeed, some of the business congressmen gruffed for publication that Laborman Madden had abused their hospitality, that he had not been invited "to come here and make a union speech...
Robert Fitzgerald's Poems are much smoother and more conventional in form. His themes are often familiar-his Boston poems include a "Charles River Nocturne," glimpses of the Common-and he writes of autumn woods and winter nights. A dominant note in his poems is loneliness, but it is a loneliness the poet accepts without regret, and it is enriched with memories of childhood, with grave and unpretentious reflections on destiny and death, with flashes of warmly human or amusingly discordant scenes that the world offers for his attention. Cool and detached, the poems give little evidence of intellectual...
Readers who note the comments on the English spirit, English genius, character, history which run through Maurois' books may feel that he says things that most Englishmen would like to hear, but which their own writers seldom point out. With a great gift for simplification, Maurois makes complex individuals seem transparent, reduces difficult and obscure periods in their lives, over which scholars still debate, to matter-of-fact and readily understandable situations. In Prophets and Poets he has written of nine English writers, beginning with Kipling and ending with Katherine Mansfield. In an attempt to reveal the underlying philosophy...
...speaking of the week's program at the Paramount and Fenway, in order to begin with a note of optimism, we have to describe the "second big hit" first. For Warner Oland's mystifying in "Charlie Chan's Secret" proves much more enticing than the rigmarole of "Coronado...