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...even Miami, or Brownsville, or Kennebunk Port-transport him to San Francisco, carry him on to New York, then back to his home, all for $90 in coaches, or $135 first class, with Pullman charges added. The railroads are not in favor of freight "postalization," but this was the plainest kind of passenger postalization...
...Claire Trevor remains resolutely good before the advances of a clean American friend, an orchid-ridden Brazilian lover, and (apparently) a shell-shocked and otherwise unstable British husband, whose demise provides Miss Rinehart with a court-room scene and a paralleled denouement. Of all the picture's conclusions, the plainest was that Miss Trevor is worthy of better things than the forcible feeding of pap to the public...
...American Burns." Man with a Bull-Tongue Robert Plow, a collection of 703 sonnetesque verses, sings only homespun heroes, vaunts the excellences of Kentucky farmlife, mourns the mortality of Poet Stuart's love affairs and friends. No book to read through at a sitting, it will prove to the plainest reader that, in Poet Van Doren's words, Stuart is "a rare poet for these times . . . both copious and comprehensible." Some samples of his comprehensible copiosities: Where are the friends of youth I miss ? Elmer and Bert, Oscar, and Jim and John; . . . And where are Lizzie, Lute, and Jack...
Banquets & Portents. To provide festivity on the night of Their Majesties' arrival a banquet and a ball were given, with all Russians present attired, according to sex, in double-breasted serge suits, or the plainest of frocks. The setting, a refurbished and resplendent palace, seemed like a coronet of gold and platinum studded with pebbles. The banquet menu, however, was less incongruous. Delicate appetizers, including three kinds of caviar, were followed by an exquisite bisque, then many a fish, roast game in abundance, a fragile salad, and fruits from every quarter of the Soviet Union, some fresh and some...
...time for golf, he has acquired the artificial habit of writing in the late afternoon until dinner time. He perennially roams European capitals and the U. S. picking up his cosmopolitan types and plots, chiefly in cafés and from hotel managers. His types and plots are everything. The plainest pigments of human nature are sufficient to color up the assorted shapes of the characters and show brightly as they race through skeins of intrigue...