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Meanwhile the hunt assumed national proportions as Tudor Gardiner 2L announced the discovery of a sheaf of correspondence between his missing brother and a friend in Colorado, suggesting the possibility of a secret visit...
...detective unfolded a massive sheaf of documents. "He's been in and out of prison most of his life. He's an expert pickpocket, and has 34 convictions...
Leading the latest procession from parlor to bedroom is the incomparable mountebank, Clifton Webb, gracefully balancing Noel's sheaf of tarts and darts. He hits the razor's edge with every gesture, shrug and intonation. Up against this kind of finesse Monty Wooley would be made to look like a blundering clod. Portraying the actor whose life aim begins and ends with his own convenience, Webb does a pungently sophisticated job of lechery and of molding the lives of the satellite circle of blustering men and urbane women who serve as his foils...
...reporter, puzzling over the sheaf of complicated provisions in the bill, asked the Senate majority leader if he thought the conference had written an improved measure. "I don't know if it is a better bill or not," Barkley answered wearily...
...Condemned Playground, Connolly has collected a sheaf of critical studies, parodies, travel notes and pronouncements dating from 1927 to 1943. They appeared in various London magazines, including his own Horizon. Along with his Enemies of Promise (1939) and The Unquiet Grave (1945), these writings are chiefly valuable in that they communicate and defend a love of writing as an art. They show a humane concern and alertness for the dedicated writer's lot in a radio-cinema civilization. They are full of bright glances into the writing process...