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...Horse's Mouth, by Joyce Gary. That rare thing, a first-rate comic novel; the final volume of a wise, hilarious trilogy about a modern Moll Flanders, an eccentric country gentleman and a scape grace painter (TIME...
Lancaster wears his considerable knowledge of Greek history and architecture without pretension, and his first-rate drawings in line and color make Classical Land, scape a far more attractive guide than the standard authorities. What gives Lancaster's book its special quality is the easy and pertinent shuttling from present to past and back to the immediate. His Anglo-Saxon standards, it turns out, left him with plenty to admire-from the Byzantine intrusions on the classic architecture so revered by the purists, to the Greeks themselves, whom he found lazy, but rarely rude or stupid...
...rest of the story, you can print anything in our rag that you so desire just so long as you don't make up anything more that will get me in trouble with the law. I'm as good a scape-goat as any, and you can probably invent some pretty fine stories. Send the clippings to me when you print them for my scrapbook if you would be so kind. I would like you to print this letter if you want to but print it in its entirely and don't, please, add any little inventions of your...
Then Herbert Hoover set forth a plan that completely about-faced the American program for Germany. Heavy industries are no longer the scape-goat of post-war planning but receive the coal with which Potsdam had intended to bolster Allied countries, French recovery receives a staggering set-back under the new plan, for Germany now retains 79 percent of its own mined coal and the Saar mines fall far short of the production needed to smelt down Alsace Lorraine ore. France must either pay $22 per ton for American coal or do without the fourteen million tons her industries lack...
...paint? well first I get a frame, then I saw my masonite to fit. ... Now it is ready for the scene, what ever the mind may produce, A land scape picture, an Old Bridge a Dream or a summer or winter scene, Childhoods memory, what everone fancys, But always somethings pleasing and Cheerful and I like bright colors and activity...