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Critics have called Vanderbilt IV inefficient, disloyal, peevish, erratic, eccentric. Perhaps they were harsh, misinformed. For, last week, Vanderbilt IV, honest, put his signature to a document pledging more than $1,000,000 of his inheritance to repay stockholders of his dead tabloids. Said he: "I am giving up my heritage purely as a moral obligation. Legally, I no longer have any debts, but I wish to wipe the slate clean...
...healthy and good natured little absurdity; then, in her second winter, some jealous deity reached out his hand toward Helen Keller. She had an illness, "acute congestion of the stomach and brain"; afterward she was as deaf and as blind as an idol. For five years, "a peevish, unmanageable little animal," she squirmed in the horror of an endless gloom. Then the wise fingers of Anne Sullivan Macy, tracing with infinite patience signs and symbols upon her hand, brought Helen Keller along a lane to light. Years later she could read and write. Years later still, when...
...noisy grief and disappointment as an "anti-A m e r i c a n demonstration." Other U. S. correspondents in Paris soon and roundly denied this interpretation and for several days after the incident, U. S. editors were kept busy explaining that the French were not an irrationally peevish people (TIME, May 23). What the Herald Tribune management said to Mr. Forrest about his putting the newspaper in such a position, has never come out. But last week the Herald Tribune left no doubt in the public mind but that Mr. Forrest is now in the best of standing...
...dome of white granite, with many large blocks loosened by the weather, and, until one approached the edge and looked down to the base of the tremendous vertical cliffs, all seemed gentle and smiling, for we had a warm, still day. The next day it snowed and visitors were peevish. The view, of course, is immense--peaks on peaks for hundreds of miles, forests and valleys, lakes and streams...
Haggard, shopworn, peevish- 14,000 workers walked out into the dirty snow of Jan. 26, 1926. They would teach insolent mill owners not to cut wages...