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...something better than leather, and a raincoat that lets body moisture out. We need road surfaces that will last at least a century and roofs that will never leak. We need a superconductor for electricity. We need artificial teeth that are as good as natural, . . . paper as permanent as parchment, fabrics and dyes that wind and sun cannot touch, a spring metal that will not fail with fatigue and rubber that will last a century. We need a satisfactory anesthetic for childbirth...
...have shown Roosevelt, Frankfurter, and the little hot dogs tearing the venerable document into shreds with fiendish delight. Leading editorials have stigmatized Roosevelt as trying to undermine the entire American structure of society by his measures which, they claim, reduce the constitution to a mere shred of out-worn parchment...
Heavy with presents were the trunks. From the Met's stagehands there was a parchment scroll in a revolving bronze frame. The choristers gave a bronze plaque, the U. S. singers a silver plaque, the orchestramen a gold plaque. From Geraldine Farrar there was a silver loving cup, another from Rosa Ponselle. The administrative assistants chose a silver fitted traveling-case. The Metropolitan directors gave a silver tray with a set of resolutions. Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath was more practical. His gift: a bust of Mr. Gatti to be placed in the Metropolitan. Gatti asked only...
...took the oath the old man's parchment-skinned hand fluttered gently above his head. To his vast relief the courtroom was almost empty. He sat down in the railed-in witness chair, began answering his counsel's questions in a voice so low it could be heard scarcely ten feet away. The three men on the bench leaned forward, hands cupped behind ears. Soon the news of the witness' appearance was buzzing over Pittsburgh. Spectators began to flow in. Within an hour the courtroom was jammed with citizens eager to hear Andrew William Mellon defend himself...
...often jealous and rude. The break was Chopin's destruction. With Sand he had done his greatest work, courageously defying disease. Without her he was lost in body and spirit. Two years after she deserted him he was too weak to walk alone. His color was like parchment, his eyes sunken beyond recognition. When Death was near his one dread was that he might be buried alive. When Death came in 1849 his body was, as he wished, opened. His heart was sent to Poland, his body buried in Paris...