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...less than the palsied hand which jumbled the Herald Tribune's fateful headline, our own pen trembles as it records the treason of Administration demagogues. One shudders to think what will come next from the New Dealers whose despotic path has led them to degrade the Father of His country. No palliative, not even the soothing words of a Clay, can smooth over such an affront to national patriotism. In no time at all the Mayflower Society, D.A.R., and W.C.T.U. will be at Mr. Farley's Democratic throat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME-SAVER | 3/9/1938 | See Source »

Rare volumes and letters from the pen of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are on exhibit in the Poetry Room of Widener Library. A feature of the display is a manuscript draft of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem "Aurora Leigh," bequeathed to Harvard by Miss Amy Lowell. A letter in which Mrs. Browning referred in 1841 to her famous dog, Flush, is also shown. She wrote that the dog had torn a book into fragments, "like a critic," and added, "But how could he know any better? There's an apology for the critics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/8/1938 | See Source »

...your pen doesn't work, I have a supply of living fountain points that have a faculty of injecting formic acid which has a soothing property. I offer you 8,000,000 ants to distribute in troublemaking pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...have seen jackrabbit drives in the West, in which a cordon of hunters closes in on the helpless rabbits and drives them into a pen, where they are clubbed or shot. The spectacle at Nanking after the Japanese captured the city was very much the same, with human beings as the victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Eyewitness | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...Smith have written music exactly suitable to the theme that has required three years of labor to produce. Perhaps what makes this a masterpiece of cinema entertainment, in addition to the color medium and settings, is the actual creation of seven individual characters, all of them dwarfs made with pen and ink, yet all tremendously human...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/12/1938 | See Source »

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