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agayin and agayin and agayin. The Face Is Familiar is the definitive omnibus of Nash's best work. In that part of it which isn't coy or silly the book pioneers a yawping American humor homely enough to make the Statue of Liberty grin on her pedestal...
...committee called for clarification of such omnibus phrases as "notwithstanding the provisions of any other laws, or otherwise dispose of," "any other direct or indirect benefit," and other phrases of a similar nature which are included in the bill...
...Limoges, in unoccupied France, Aragon is writing poetry, a novel (non-political). Aragon wrote a novel just before the war started, called it Les Voyageurs de l'Imperiale (l'Imperiale is the name for the top deck of a pre-World War I French double-decker omnibus). Late this spring his book will be published in the U. S. Tentative title: The Century Was Young...
...viri doctissimmi societate sancta Phi Beta Kappa delecti primo mane postea vos salutamus. Supra mundum plebrum perturbatum, tranquilli in lucis et veritatis contemplatione, tumidi erbriique noctu magno cum convivio recubuisti et de rebus omnibus lingua mortua maiorum orationem habuisti. Qui vella Chicagoensia tradit in eruditionis altioris mysteria vos initiavit. Soli ex omnibus filiis Yaleusibus discipulis rudibus demississque ubertatem verborem centum librorum pulverulentium commendatione dignorum a Roberto Hutchins exhausisti...
...weeks, the knitter is conspicuous everywhere. Philosophers, mostly men, agree that for large projects and noble ideals man is supreme. Nothing could prove more strikingly than knitting woman's devotion to the small things. . . . To see a knitter adding a few stitches between stops in a train or omnibus, purling two or casting off between glimpses of Mr. Cooper and Miss Colbert on the screen-this is an object lesson in concentration and in kindly devotion...