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...hands into the auditorium. Quoting freely from the classics, the Bible and the remount depot, the voluble warrior urged his followers not to resign through "sentimental foolishness," thanked them for their devotion. Said he: "I predicted this end from the very beginning. Red fire at first, dead cats and oblivion at the end." There was not a dry eye in the house, including the General's when he concluded: "Goodby. God bless...
Through an atmosphere murky with the fog and rain of the Liverpool waterfront, passengers file gloomily aboard a freighter bound for more sunny shores. One of them is a young medical genius blighted by ill fortune, and he staggers aboard destined for an alcoholic oblivion, the precious serum with him. Another is the blonde and brightly smiling Lady Mary, who glimpses the doctor and has sympathy. Melodramatic, if you like, but "Grand Canary" makes a far better picture than most of Hollywood's infinite variations of the Arrowsmith theme...
...Industry is incurably optimistic; its beacon is hope, and change is its lifeblood. ... All through the ages ... the cry has been raised that the end of human advance is at hand. Asiatic kings had that sombre fallacy carved on monuments rescued from oblivion by the far-ranging archaeologists of our dynamic...
...millions of francs of profit upon the artistic fecundity of 40 or 50 designers. The wages of 300,000 cutters and sewers, 150,000 embroiderers, glove makers, bag makers, hundreds of thousands of copyists the world over depend upon their creations. If they fail, the price is instant oblivion. If they succeed the rewards may be as great as those of Charles Frederick Worth, draper's assistant who revolutionized the haute couture in the 1850's and whose sons and grandsons have prospered mightily. No aspiring Paris dressmaker ever forgets the fact that Gabrielle Chanel, the country girl from Auvergne...
...least a large portion of the cost of management, leaving to the Federal Government the responsibility of investing, maintaining and safeguarding the funds constituting the necessary insurance reserves." Defenses: "This Congress has not only set an example of large vision for all time, but has almost consigned to oblivion our ancient habit of pork barrel legislation; to that we cannot and must not revert. ... It is childish to speak of recovery first and reconstruction afterward. "Ample scope is left for the exercise of private initiative. In fact, in the process of recovery, I am greatly hoping that repeated promises that...