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...approximation of Italian pronunciation, but many a U.S. soldier will shy like a startled colt at learning that to ask "When does the movie start?" he must say: "ah KAY Ora ko-MEEN-cha eel FEELM?" Or that the homely, familiar phrase "main street" turns out to be "STRAda preen-chee...
...House of Morgan has been to U.S. finance, the New York Times is to U.S. journalism. Rich in reputation, ripe in years, the Times is respected because it is thorough, dignified and decent. No one reads it for the lively approach. The Times has sometimes almost seemed to preen itself on its dowagerlike lack of humor, its presentation of all news in the same flat tone of voice...
...shift from the hunter's to the farmer's economy, the story relaxes towards more ordinary folk-stuff. But Conrad Richter can teach most U. S. folk-writers a trick or two in the right use of archaic language, and his pioneers, unlike most in fiction, never preen themselves before posterity...
Last week, scions of families known the world over, had an opportunity to preen their feathers at Newport Art Association's Gushing Memorial Gallery. There, an eminently back-scratching collection of family portraits, paintings, historic prints and photographs was gathered to celebrate the town's 300th birthday. The gallery's walls bore a stupendous weight of 19th-Century socialites, intellectuals, artists; 18th-Century pirates, privateers, naval heroes; 16th-Century divines. And among them hung paintings of the Colonial churches, including Trinity's Christopher Wrenish spire by one of Newport's best known resident artists, Helena...
...independent columnist whose opinions the publisher disavowed, it was as much of a shock to Herald Tribune readers as to Lippmann's friends. Before long, however, the Herald Tribune'?, bosom ceased to quiver from the shock of taking in this potential viper and started to preen itself on owning the prize exhibit in the journalistic zoo. Lippmann's popularity as a daily elucidator of world-events soon grew nationwide, and his column was last week being syndicated in 160 U. S. and Canadian newspapers of assorted political persuasion...