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...week-end to the Woodmont Rod & Gun Club in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Hancock, Md., the President took his party's sturdiest political wheelhorses-Jack Garner, Joe Robinson, Pat Harrison, Joe Byrns, Jim Farley. After a lunch of venison steak the party retired to the sun-sparkling private lake, where the President reeled in the day's best catch- ten trout, the legal limit. Followed a dinner of broiled pheasant, after which chairs were drawn about a crackling fire and six professional politicos put heads together to scheme their way out of the Bonus...
...earned the right to intellectual ambition until he has learned to lay his course by a star which he has never seen-to dig by the divining rod for springs which he may never reach. . . . To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone-when you have felt around you a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and in despair have trusted to your own unshaken will-then only will you have achieved. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated...
...theremin has two knobs on the player's side and a sloping top. Projecting vertically from the right is a single metal rod while horizontally from the left is a curved bar. When the hand moves between these two bars, serving as antennae, the constants governing the flow of current causing this field are changed...
Mechanically, the two models have many important improvements in construction and design. Both engines have an original system of high-pressure jets supplying oil to connecting rod bearings, electro-plated pistons, heavier crankshafts, improved knee-action, and other new features contributing to better performance, smoothness, and economy. Newly designed clutches, more effective brakes, stiffer frames and other advances in design give greater ease of operation, increased durability and a better ride...
...whose skins are as wrinkled as a dirty handkerchief. His heavy baroque style brought him local fame when he applied it to a loutish, hunched figure called The Lineman. Other noteworthy Chicago artists: Malvin Albright, twin of Ivan who sculpts under the name of Zsissly; Aaron Bohrod (pronounced Bo-rod) who does sketches of Chicago streets and coal yards; Jean Crawford Adams (landscapes); Archibald John Motley Jr., Negro who gets a bright, sculpturesque quality in his portraits of fellow Negroes Frances Foy, whose specialty is city parks and streets...