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Best obtainable seats are window ledges in Adams House, while on the street below the swelling roars of the proletariat echo and re-echo from the cavernous walls of Randolph and Russell like raging surf. Even the toffs, ensconced high above, share in the racing fever, as Budweiser can chases Ballantine and Croft madly down the street. These preliminary races, according to track veterans, may send Con. or Am. Can to record highs on the exchange, as the relative merits of the steeds are discovered. The dark blue of Pabst has not yet proved itself a winning color over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...mong our ancient mountains, And from our lovely vales, Oh! Let the pray-'r re-echo God bless the Prince of Wales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Bachelor at 40 | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

There is no attempt, stylistically, to re-echo the taut and simple brutalities of Hemingway; nor is there nay imitation of Dos Passos' inchoate complexity. Mr. Hoffman is not be obvious disciple of anybody who is being toasted by the aesthetes, 1933 model. His innovation in method places him in Proust's debt, if in anybody's, since the book is an attempt to remember things past, and to recapture their essence. The author muses on life in a German Lutheran minister's household, situated in a German settlement in New York State. The life that is led there...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 11/22/1933 | See Source »

...Iowa demanded that the next President be "in sympathy" with agriculture. Sixty-one Iowa legislators petitioned Mr. Lowden to be a candidate. Rabid farm organizations suggested a boycott on Eastern manufactured products. The East, complacent, had expected the veto and cheered it. After three days, the vociferation calmed. Its re-echo will probably not be heard in Washington until the 70th Congress meets in December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

Well might the Semitic press say this, and well might citizens of all creeds re-echo praise of a man whose knowledge of the law and understanding of the "rights of man" is unsurpassed. In 1916 President Wilson appointed him to the Supreme Court in the face of biting criticism. People said: "Yes, he is brilliant, but he is biased. We do not want prejudiced labor advocates in the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: Truth | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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