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...personality clearly emerges from the welter of detail about people and books and events. Here is Amy Lowell joining the guests at her table after the roast has been removed and, despite having two plates of soup, catching up with them before the meal is over. Here is Amy Lowell, self-described, at an Advocate smoker, "smuggled into an upper chamber, and kept quiet with cigars while they heckled me in true undergraduate fashion. I think I held my own; I tried to." We may be sure that she did. Here is the sincerity, the generosity, the fearlessness, the humor...
...family, Premier Allison Dysart and several members of the New Brunswick Cabinet he went picnicking on a beach a mile from his home. There were only some 40 guests on the picnic, and Mrs. Roosevelt and the steward of the Presidential yacht Potomac succeeded in filling them adequately with roast beef, ham, salad and cake. On the sand, with a comfortable rock at his back, the President spent most of his time conversing with the New Brunswickian Premier and eating frankfurters, than which he likes only scrambled eggs better...
...Lewis' neat colonial house in Alexandria, Va. There in his lovely garden he now receives the flower of legislative society. Perhaps the only mannerism which still betrays his early career as a mine mule-skinner is his habit of hitching up his coat sleeves before he carves the roast. His conversation is straightforward, if sometimes redundant, and he is quite capable of conveying, if not originating, an acceptable image. Sonorously he speaks of the democratic necessity, in these troubled political times, of a large, well-disciplined, contented bloc of organized workers between "the upper millstone of capitalism...
...program, loaded with speakers who could be counted on to roast Franklin Roosevelt and all his works, opened with an Advance of the Colors, a pledge of allegiance, the singing of America...
...During the palmy days of Prohibition, they testified, Captain Cadek systematically jailed every liquor dealer in his territory who failed to give him handsome, periodic bribes. So well understood was Captain Cadek's policy that on one occasion the 'leggers combined to tender the "Skipper" a pig-roast and clambake, at which they presented him with two beer kegs so stuffed with currency that it had to be stamped down before Captain Cadek could lug it away...