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This simple skeleton is built into a fine novel by Miss Suckow's rich direct, and maturely sympathetic style. Her prose is at times radiantly beautiful and wise, "He was aware of a sense of change pervading everything, although it wasn't a thing he could touch or locate. He couldn't say how or when it had happened, but the old simple surety seemed to be gone. The church of his fathers was empty. There was something beyond him, some force that he was only blindly aware of working steathily and bringing a right-about-face. His own children...
...Legislature because its members would not first promise not to impeach him (TIME, June 22, 1931). His prime enemy was a roly-poly politician from Seminary named Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner. On the walls of the Governor's office hung an almost life-size picture of a skeleton, with MIKE CONNER written on its skull. In 1932 "Sure Mike" Conner took the picture down when he moved in as Governor...
...largest fresco unit in the U.S. Keynote of Orozco's Epic of American Civilization was Mexican mythology and the second coming of Quetzalcoatl, "the white Messiah of peace and understanding." To depict academic tradition in the U. S., without Quetzalcoatl, Orozco did Gods of the Modern World?robed skeletons watching an unclothed skeleton give birth to a skeletal foetus in a mortarboard...
This is the story of a hillbilly boy from the South who makes good as an electrical worker during the boom years. His domain was the wide world outside any Pullman window-a world across which marches mile on mile of high-tension wire, sagging between skeleton towers...
Last week in Chicago's Palmer House, nine men and women calling themselves naprapaths, without the wit of Hunter or Bentham, without the reverence of the Egyptians, made shocking news by having a skeleton as honor guest at breakfast...