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...failure of the westerlies had the opposite effect in the east. A high-pressure area (the Bermuda High) was unusually strong and hung persistently off the coast. The wind circulating clockwise around it brought warm, moist air from over the Gulf Stream. Unchecked by the westerlies, it penetrated far into the interior, keeping the western cold away and giving the eastern U.S. a balmy "maritime" winter...
...Southern political boss, Hummon had shown a marked talent for exploiting credulity, prejudice and ignorance without all of the stage props which old Gene needed. Once in office he snapped no red galluses. He was as subdued as a Talmadge could be. He steered an endless stream of visitors in & out of his crowded office with an efficiency that Tom Dewey could admire, greeting visitors with a fast-fading smile...
After the introduction, Dr. Edith Sitwell strode on stage and up to the lectern. She did not, as some had predicted, arrive on broomstick, astride a lion, or floating on a stream of gurgling honey. She was clad in her poetical uniform (as publicized in Life): a long, green dress, heavy coils of silver around her wrists, and a floor-sweeping, golden cloak with slits for her hands, which clutched her two books, and a large, black, and jarringly prosaic leather handbag...
...brown-skinned man with the golden horn pursed his scarred lips, blew a short stream of incredibly high, shining notes and then carefully laid the trumpet down. "There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life," he graveled, "and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulus' Parade. After that I'll be ready...
When it was first published in 1933 (in an edition of 1,300 copies), Poet Edward Estlin Cummings' journal of a visit to Russia fell flat. Written in a stream-of-consciousness style filled with puns, parodies and typographical innovations, it seemed on the surface a needlessly complicated work on a subject of no great difficulty-a trip from Paris to Moscow (and back by Odessa and Constantinople) on which nothing happened...