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...unlike a New England intellectualization of Hell. It is the place to which men are condemned who inhabit "the wrong world"-preachers who should have been lawyers, businessmen who should have been artists. Principal figure is a mediocre painter who escaped from "the wrong world" by becoming a pump-manufacturer ("a spring-clean unimpeachable pump-builder"), then somehow relapsed. Saved from suicide and other tempting methods of flight by the mysterious figure of Amaranth, a symbolic embodiment of conscience, the erstwhile painter watches fate overtake the other inhabitants, eventually wins his release from the accursed country. Total effect of Amaranth...
...soldiers of the Legion" who "lay dying in Algiers," and then he turns to Charles Lamb's "Dissertation on Roast Pig." How many thousands of youngsters have been fired by Webster's "Supposed Speech of John Adams" and how many have laughed over Hawthorne's "Rill from the Town Pump...
...industry (TIME, July 2). By last week the Federal Reserve had loaned a measly $810,000 of the $280,000,000 available, and Jesse Jones's RFC only $8,040,000 out of $300,000,000. And Mr. Jones, showing signs of weariness from his vociferous efforts at pump-priming, was ready to admit last week that the banks as a whole were "doing their share in lending...
...sketches and paintings on dry land after exploring in diving suits. But not Chris Emile Olsen. In a one-piece bathing suit and crepe-soled tennis shoes Artist Olsen slips into the water. A 65-pound metal helmet is placed over his head and shoulders, attached to an air pump on board ship. He goes down 20 to 35 ft., takes with him a Monel steel tripod, easel, and palette spread with regular oil colors. He paints on 8 by 10 in. glass plates covered on both sides with primed canvas...
...number of unemployed, and that each branch have an employment agency. Planner Morris, who collects American antiques and champion Leghorn chickens, was simply advocating what few serious economists have dared to suggest: opening the till of government credit to the consumer. Every single governmental attempt to prime the business pump throughout four years of Depression has been one indirect method or another of easing credit to producers. The Governor of Georgia urged that Army planes scatter greenbacks over the land but no serious effort has ever been made to bolster buying power by direct consumer credit. To prove that...