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...time brisk Mr. Browning appeared to lay siege to Miss Barrett's fluttering heart, Flush was almost a softy. He viewed Mr. Browning with alarm, did his best to break up the match. On two occasions Flush attacked him, bit his stalwart leg to no effect. A graceful realist, he saw the struggle was hopeless, admitted Mr. Browning to his friendship...
...entertaining show. Says Author Brinig, through one of his characters: "It occurs to me that a writer ought to have both vegetables and flowers in his books. He ought to have everything in his books. The old idea of being one thing at a time, a romanticist or a realist, hardly fits in with the times...
Perhaps because facilities are lacking to use most of Dnieprostroy's giant power, Dictator Josef Stalin, stern realist, stayed away from the "successful opening." From Moscow he wired: DETAINED BY WORK...
...realist, Proust sums up, in The Past Recaptured, his creative process, raps shrewdly in passing at more "objective" writers...
...Fundamentals Association. Patriarchal, resonant, he has debated many a time on Evolution. Proud is he that Clarence Darrow backed down" when he offered him $500 to debate in Denver. Rev. Louis Entzminger of Fort Worth, Tex "Sunday School Expert.' Large, eagle-beaked Brother Entzminger says he is a realist. "I knocked the face off the last man who called me a son-of-a-bitch. That has been since I have been a pastor. I don't live in the millenium, I live in Texas." For his "unChristian" attitude Brother Entzminger was censured from the platform. Back...