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Lord Hartington's agent toured the constituency astride Paddy, five-year-old son of famed Derby winner Papyrus, drumming up votes...
...years on the Times let Davis develop his tastes. He covered the Ford peace ship, the Dempsey-Gibbons fight, the Harding arms conference, the famed Zev-Papyrus match race, wrote everything from editorials to whimsy. By 1924, when his third novel was published, he was ready to try free-lancing as a steady thing. He wrote adventure and boy-meets-girl stories for the slick-paper magazines, essays on literature, politics and realpolitik for Harper's and Saturday Review of Literature...
...Biblical botany at the annual International Flower Show in Manhattan last week, where the most popular single exhibit was the New York Botanical Garden's show of some 75 plants mentioned in the Bible-everything from a young cedar of Lebanon to the sort of bulrushes (papyrus plants) among which the infant Moses was hidden...
...liberal revolutionaries who founded the U. S. and French republics. Durant does not capitalize on that. His treatment of Greek literature is more warmly informative than the Encyclopaedia Britannica, but it is commonplace in taste and no match for the subject. His illustrations are less than adequate (no papyrus, no comic masks, no small pottery) though such selections as the archaic mask of "Agamemnon" (see cut) are fresh and effective. But throughout his big book he does show, with more restraint in analogy-making than could be expected after his previous books, that the history of Greek politics is relevant...
...hoarse, agreed that the race they feared might be as exciting as a warmed-over soufflé turned out to be just what last spring's publicity had promised: "the race of the century"-even more thrilling than the great Man o' War-Sir Barton (1920) and Papyrus-Zev (1923) match races...