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When Hitler turned up at the President's Palace, he found Old Paul all smiles and spruce Colonel Franz von Papen ready to pop the question: "Will you, Herr Reichspräsident, entrust Herr Hitler with a mandate to form a Cabinet...
...York City Planning Commission has now taken the developers to court in an effort to force them to keep their end of the deal. But despite those complaints and problems, New York and other hard-pressed cities are likely to continue using innovative zoning as an inexpensive way to spruce up the neighborhood...
...INVITATION was for a tree-trimming party. With Christmas fast approaching, it conjured up images of spruce and holly, punch and sugar cookies, and strings of popcorn and berries. All of these were, in fact, present when I arrived at Radcliffe President Matina Horner's house, but without their usual emotional accompaniment--the exuberance and communality that tends to infuse holiday gatherings. And as I left the party, lacking my accustomed share of "Christmas spirit." I began to wonder what had created such a feeling of hesitancy on an occasion which differed from countless others I had attended in only...
...reality, as recalled in his few drab ad tentative attempts at scenes of life in Union Square made in the early forties. So Porter packed up his easel and relocated to the posh seashore resort town of Southampton, Long Island, spending the summers at a vacation home in Great Spruce Head. Maine, In these WASPy environs, he felt at home with everything from the foliage to the patio furniture...
...speaks for itself, basically unaltered by the artist's interpretation. Or the observer can join Porter for some salty see spray on The Mall Boat (1973) in which, like scene form On Golden Pond, the skipper at the helm navigates through the shallow channels and rocky islands near Great Spruce Head...