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...that nobody could hear what he said." A later meeting was delightedly reported by Dadaist Tzara: "For the first time in the history of the world, people threw at us not onlv eggs, vegetables and pennies, but beef-steaks as well. It was a very huge suecess." They will sniff at the mock-heroic episode in which Malcolm Cowley smote a Paris cafe proprietor for Art's sake, thus gathering a two-fisted reputation that later scared bookish Critic Ernest Boyd. Nor will they be moved by his version of the long-drawn-out suicide of Harry Crosby, whom...
...intelligent college girl seldom considers those courses-by-which-The-State-sets-such-store worth her while after a sniff or two at them-and the game not worth the candle. They are stupid and inane and consist mainly of "horse-sense" in which only an imbecile might need instruction...
...good mixer, he has known most of them by their first names for years. His pince-nez slide down his long snipe nose. He wears coats two sizes too big. His felt hat is generally cocked at a raffish angle. For weekends he goes off on a destroyer to sniff salt air or visits the Hoover camp on the Rapidan, now in charge of marines. In his office he scorns details. When mail stacks up too high before him, he sweeps it impatiently into a basket, sends it out to his assistants with a: "Let 'em answer...
...suffered due to lack of aggressive leadership and clear-cut purpose within the Board. Its importance as a relief agency has dwindled. Its public works program is still meshed in red tape. Neglected by the White House, it has become an administrative orphan in Washington. Congress continues to sniff suspiciously at its past. Last week the Senate sent the House a bill prohibiting the R. F. C. from lending money to corporations which paid any of their executives more than $17,500 per year, thus barring as borrowers practically all railroads, big banks and large industrial concerns...
...third largest menagerie in the U. S. The animal most amenable to direction was the gibbon (Amos), who is accustomed to camera work. Most intractable was a supercilious warthog. In one scene a woman visitor complains about the smell of the animals. The wart-hog gives her a derisive sniff. Director Lee produced the proper expression by offering the wart-hog a carrot, substituting a piece of raw beef to make him disgusted...