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Cleared: the Rev. Dr. Henry Darlington, rector of Manhattan's fashionable Church of the Heavenly Rest; of charges that he had exerted "undue influence" on 78-year-old Mrs. Anna H. Paton, who left him 30% of her $1,300,000 (which shrank to about $800,000). Her relatives, who had charged that the pastor had wooed the 230-lb. widow out of the money, said they would appeal...
...went to Billy's last week, Correspondent Denny could only gnaw a pig's knuckle and go home. Said he: "After I got where I could get decent food I ate too much and got fierce pains in my stomach. The doctors tell me my stomach shrank while I was in jail and I tried to stretch it too fast...
...evangelist of democracy, it was his business to write a true, not a heretical, gospel. In Fausset's opinion, Whitman never quite succeeded in being either poet or evangelist. He wrote some great poetry and some amazingly energetic verse. But on the whole, he shrank even from such responsibilities as he was equipped to recognize. He perceived a great number of democratic half-truths. He lacked the intellectual equipment or spiritual stamina to make the half-truth whole. Reason: Whitman, the man, was never really whole...
There is one wonderful scene in Only One Storm in which Christina's father, who is down for Thanksgiving, makes unpleasant remarks about the New Deal. Canby noticed that as Grandfather was leaving, Grandson Danny, age nine, "shrank a little from his kiss." "Danny takes things too hard," said Canby. But the most successful (and funniest) scenes in the book are Author Hicks's re-creation of the endless political patter of the radicals. Best is probably a weekend cocktail party at Comrade Wallace Burgin's, where Wife Christina thoughtlessly asks the unpardonable question...
...that a "process of biological deterioration has been responsible, in considerable measure, although not exclusively, for the collapse of the French nation." This, he maintains, has resulted from the country's loss of its best man-power in successive and exhausting wars. In France "loyalties of a national character shrank to a vanishing point and were replaced by class antagonisms," selfishness, and greed became outstanding manifestations of French national behavior...