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...rapid order, he won three important awards, gathered a devoted following and dazzled the critics with his performances. "Playing of Rachmaninoff dimensions," cheered the Times's Olin Downes. ''Complete mastery, with prodigious strength and swiftness." Kapell appeared with 20 major orchestras, and his bouncing plume of black hair became familiar to concert audiences across...
Mary Goodneighbor, for instance, suffered the indignity of a police pinch in Boston after a triumphant tour of Baltimore. Shielded from publicity by the nom de plume of Irma The Body and an ostrich plume cunningly wrapped about her as a gown, Miss Goodneighbor plys her trade with many giggles and transports of joy. These the censor would call obscene. Little wonder the textile industry is moving southward...
...blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul
...Zulaco oil fields, a great plume of fire rises from Well No. 16. The drill tower rears and twists. Thirteen men are dead. The fire rages on. Company inspectors decide that the fire can be snuffed only with explosives. Back at the port of Las Piedras, 300 miles away, sit two tons of nitro-glycerin-but can they be hauled across the shambles of a road that leads to the oil fields...
Brahmachari . . . is perhaps familiar with English literature, or with someone who knows the writings of Oliver Goldsmith. The story is told in the 18th letter of Lien Chi Altangi, Goldsmith's oriental nom de plume for his series of satirical attacks on English customs, Citizen of the World...